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Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#countries #ethic #good #latin #mythology

My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books. ↗

— Umberto Eco

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Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain to be in peril. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#certain #enemy #ignorant #peril #you

Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#anatomy #designers #figure #flunked #human

When they ran out of cadre men they gave me my very own platoon and said, 'Here are 63 men, try to keep as many of them alive as you possibly can.' That was one of the more harrowing experiences of my life. ↗

— David Eddings

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If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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What a mysterious thing madness is. I have watched patients whose lips are forever sealed in a perpetual silence. They live, breathe, eat; the human form is there, but that something, which the body can live without, but which cannot exist without the body, was missing. ↗

— Nellie Bly

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