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“OCCIDERE POSSUNT SED TE EDERE NON POSSUNT NEFAS EST”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“premeditatio malorum”
― Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

“Rancid horse penises, sold as meat at the company store, triggered the walkout.”
― Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Volume I: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928

“For each natural number N, will the guest in room number N please move immediately to room number N (N +1)/2.’ Then they announce, ‘For all natural numbers N and M, will the Nth passenger from the Mth train please go to room number [(N + M)2 + N – M/2.”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Sparta has no philosophers. That’s because the job of a philosopher is to understand things better, which is a form of change, so they don’t want it. Another difference: they don’t honour living poets, only dead ones. Why? Because dead poets don’t write anything new, but live ones do. A third difference: their education system is insanely harsh; ours is famously lax. Why? Because they don’t want their kids to dare to question anything, so that they won’t ever think of changing anything. How”
― David Deutsch, The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World