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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them

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the square root of the people in a domain do 50% of the work

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what I want out of this conversation is that the place we end up at is better than where we left

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if others do a foolish thing then you should tell them its a foolish thing, they can still continue to do it but at least the truth will is where it needs to be

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When you get a great group of around ten great people, it becomes self policing about who they let into that group

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A film is written three times: first in the screenplay, next in production, and finally in the edit

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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge

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The nodes of a bamboo stalk are divided into many sections, but in its heart it always stretches in a single line straight toward the sky. This is the spirit of the bamboo. It is constantly aiming for the sky

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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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peace without justice isn't peace

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Zeal makes all things possible, duty makes all things simple

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He, who was my companion, through adventure and hardship, is gone forever

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Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny

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The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil

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pretty is not practical and the practical is not pretty

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Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it

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"Who controls the past," ran the Party slogan, "controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."

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The culmination of a great education isn't knowing all the answers — it's knowing what to ask.

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How one lives is so far removed from how one ought to live that he who abandons what one does for what one ought to do, learns rather his own ruin than his preservation

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Do not base your plan of actions on what the enemy would do. Base your actions on what the enemy could do

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Your anger can be 49 percent and your comedy 51 percent, and you're okay. If the anger is 51 percent, the comedy is gone

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To err is human, to forgive divine

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Gods always behave like the people who make them

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Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success. Don't hesitate to step on them

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if you talk to any ordinary Spartan, he seems to be stupid, but eventually, like an expert marksman, he shoots in some brief remark that proves you to be only a child