Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
~ Iris Murdoch
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle.
~ Sun Tzu
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Suppose no one asked a question, what would be the answer?
~ Gertrude Stein
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A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for this is the sole art that belongs to him who rules, and it is of such force that it not only upholds those who are born princes, but it often enables men to rise from a private station to that rank.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations
~ Arthur Koestler
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Anything dead coming back to life hurts.
~ Toni Morrison
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Dogmatists of all kinds — scientific, economic, moral, as well as political — are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist.
~ Rollo May
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The mechanism by which the interaction of democratic decisions and their implementation by the experts often produces results which nobody has desired is a subject which would deserve much more careful attention than it usually receives.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.
~ William Gibson
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