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    Sun Tzu
    “For should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: enemies, strategy, war, weakness
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    James Allen
    “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
    ― James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
    tags: awakening, help-self, quotes, quotes-i-love, quotes-on-life, quotes-that-make-sense, quotes-to-define-my-life, self-awareness, self-empowerment, self-help, self-improvement, self-power, self-preservation, self-realization, strength-of-mind, weakness
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    Leon Trotsky
    “Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
    ― Leon Trotsky, Diary in Exile, 1935
    tags: cynicism, life, misery, weakness
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    Ovid
    “Anything cracked will shatter at a touch.”
    ― Ovid
    tags: weakness
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    Joseph Conrad
    “Never test another man by your own weakness.”
    ― Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
    tags: man, test, weakness, weaknesses
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    Otto von Bismarck
    “It is the destiny of the weak to be devoured by the strong.”
    ― Otto von Bismarck
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    Sun Tzu
    “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: enemy, sun-tzu, war
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    William Shakespeare
    “Love all, trust a few,
    Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
    Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
    Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
    But never tax'd for speech.”
    ― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well
    tags: do-wrong, love, trust, wrong
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    Albert Einstein
    “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: life, simile
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    W.C. Fields
    “I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. ”
    ― W.C. Fields
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    Aristotle
    “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: introspection, self-discovery, wisdom
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Never memorize something that you can look up.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: humor, science
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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
    tags: dance, music
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    Albert Einstein
    “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: reality
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    Edgar Allan Poe
    “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
    ― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora
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    Albert Einstein
    “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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    Eric Hoffer
    “Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
    ― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms
    tags: rudeness, weakness
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    Plato
    “Necessity is the mother of invention.”
    ― Plato
    tags: aphorism
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    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”
    ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
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    Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    “What I learned on my own I still remember”
    ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
    tags: academia, discovery, education, intelligence, learning, reading, schooling, thinking, thought
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
    at being told that it is a fragment
    awaiting perfection.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies: a collection of proverbs, aphorisms and maxims
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