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“Нет существа ничтожнее человека. Разве тот, кто говорит обо мне плохо, сумеет сделать меня хуже, чем я есть на самом деле?”
― Shakarim Kudaiberdyuly

“In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.”
― Joseph Stalin

“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Low ceilings and tiny rooms cramp the soul and the mind.”
― Crime and Punishment; Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Those who seek death shall live. Those who seek life shall die.”
― Sun-sin Yi

“Your Highness, I still have twelve battleships.”
― Yi Sun-sin

“We are at the height of battle. Don’t let anybody know about my death!”
― Yi Sun-sin

“Если бы казахи той эпохи (1680-1780) могли бы что-то услышать о «славном парне» и браконьере, по имени Робин Гуд, они однозначно бы считали его великим батыром.”
― Radik Temirgaliev

“Tout a son vrai loyer dans ce monde. Il y a deux procureurs généraux, l'un à votre porte qui châtie les délits contre la société; la nature est l'autre. Celle-ci connaît de tous les vices qui échappent aux lois.”
― Denis Diderot, Le Neveu de Rameau

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“The true enemy of man is generalization.”
― Czesław Miłosz, Testimony to the Invisible: Essays on Swedenborg

“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country." It is a striking sign of the temper of our times that the controversy about this passage centered on its origin and not on its content. Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic "what your country can do for you" implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man's belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, "what you can do for your country" implies that government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary. To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshiped and served. He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.”
― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

“...do not spare any reasonable expense to come at early and true information; always recollecting, and bearing in mind, that vague and uncertain accounts of things [are]... more disturbing and dangerous than receiving none at all.”
― George Washington

“His anguished mind writhed with contradictions. He was a man of parts and halfs, in a time of wholes and absolutes.”
― Alexander Rose, Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

“Constraint inspires creativity”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“When you hand good people possibility, they do great things.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Your goals should be bigger than your ego,”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“If you take an idea and just hold it in your head, you unconsciously start to do things that advance you toward that goal.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Opportunity is manufactured”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Hell yeah! Twitter was proof that leaderless self-organizing systems could be true agents of change.”
― Biz Stone, Things a Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind

“Невежды находятся под властью зла. Если человек не сможет избавиться от болезни невежества, то, будучи физически живым, в духовном смысле будет мертвецом.”
― Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Тюркская история и право

“Смертный час каждого человека предопределен. Раньше этого часа человек не умрет. Только при том условии, что человек не будет думать о смерти, он сможет победить врага.”
― Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Тюркская история и право

“There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does”
― Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom

“I don't drink water. Fish fuck in it.”
― W.C. Fields