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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
    ― Soren Kierkegaard
    tags: blindness, fools, self-deception, truth, willful-blindness, willful-ignorance
    1962 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
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    Herbert Hoover
    “Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.”
    ― Herbert Hoover
    tags: age, death, fighting, old-age, war, youth
    3310 likes

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    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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    Voltaire
    “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
    ― Voltaire
    tags: double-standards, ethics, governments, humor, irony, killing, law, mankind, morality, murder, nationalism, nations, war
    4072 likes

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    Benjamin Franklin
    “Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
    tags: ben, feasts, food, fools, franklin
    92 likes

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    Margaret Atwood
    “War is what happens when language fails.”
    ― Margaret Atwood
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    Adolf Hitler
    “If you win, you need not have to explain...If you lose, you should not be there to explain!”
    ― Adolf Hitler
    tags: philosophy, war
    2570 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: deception, life, war
    3892 likes

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    John Steinbeck
    “All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
    ― John Steinbeck
    tags: conflict, politics, war
    2062 likes

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  • #11
    “War does not determine who is right — only who is left.”
    ― Anonymous
    tags: misattributed-bernard-shaw, misattributed-bertrand-russell, war
    1546 likes

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    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.”
    ― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu
    tags: class-struggle, war
    1176 likes

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    Mae West
    “He who hesitates is a damned fool.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: fools, humor, paraphrased
    499 likes

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    J.K. Rowling
    “Killing is not so easy as the innocent believe.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
    tags: death, dumbledore, harry-potter, killing
    969 likes

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    Tamora Pierce
    “It's harder to heal than it is to kill.”
    ― Tamora Pierce
    146 likes

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    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    ― Albert Camus
    tags: human-nature, man, mankind, philosophy
    10698 likes

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    Groucho Marx
    “Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: leadership
    560 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas in the world cannot save your kingdom if no one will listen to them.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: leadership
    483 likes

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    John C. Maxwell
    “Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.”
    ― John C. Maxwell
    tags: inspirational, leadership, management
    305 likes

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    Brandon Sanderson
    “...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
    ― Brandon Sanderson, The Well of Ascension
    tags: leadership, perseverance
    557 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom
    5135 likes

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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    5104 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: armed-struggle, arms, pacifism, peace, revolution, violence, war
    1208 likes

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    Robert A. Heinlein
    “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
    ― Robert A. Heinlein
    tags: choice, freedom, peace, war
    1047 likes

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    George Carlin
    “How is it possible to have a civil war?”
    ― George Carlin
    tags: euphemism, funny, humor, terminology, war
    807 likes

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    Baltasar Gracián
    “A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.”
    ― Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle
    tags: advice, enemies, foolishness, friends, friendship, strategy, war, wisdom
    913 likes

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    Sun Tzu
    “To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.”
    ― Sun Tzu
    tags: enemy, sun-tzu, war
    764 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
    9096 likes

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  • #29
    Socrates
    “I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    3936 likes

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  • #30
    Sun Tzu
    “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
    ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
    tags: diplomacy, strategy, victory, war
    3030 likes



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