Hristo Astardjiev

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Mon Mothma: Of all the things at risk, the loss of an objective reality is perhaps the most dangerous. The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil.

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Sun Tzu: Humble words but increased preparations are a sign of imminent attack. Violent words and a threatening advance mask a likely retreat.

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George Washington: It is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another.

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Santiago: …when each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day the sun rises.

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George Washington: Where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends

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Joel Spolsky: All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.

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Cat Rambo: Family is … people staying together as long as they can.

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Rebecca Yarros: History is simply a collection of stories, each influenced by those that happened before and steering the ones to come.

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Cixin Liu: We can only make predictions about the future according to our own way of thinking, and on the basis of these predictions, do the work we are able to as well as possible.

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Marcus Aurelius: The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

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Thomas Paine: A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.

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Ken MacLeod: A difference that makes no difference is no difference.

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Capt Beatty: The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.

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Frank Slootman: The only stock price that matters is the price you sell at.

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Cat Rambo: The day did not go to the side that was right. The advantage went to the person that was the most prepared.

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Neal Shusterman: The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

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Werner Vogels: Everything fails, all the time.

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Ursula K. Le Guin: War as a moral metaphor is limited, limiting, and dangerous.

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Neal Stephenson: As to luck, there is the old miners’ proverb: “Gold is where you find it.”

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Cristan Northway: The past is no man’s clay for remodelling. It is fired the moment it is moulded, alas.