“Real Patriots Ask Questions.” —Carl Sagan, Chapter 25, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" -Oppenheimer (watch the video in the description, it's pretty fire)
Learn to handle frustration; frustration can kill dreams -- Tony Robbins (paraphrased)
"Justice is better than courage, as if everyone is fair to each other, then there will be no need for courage" Ali Ibn Abi Talib
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds — Albert Einstein, others
"When you want to avoid being a charlatan, you must stay away from the stage; because once you get on it, you're forced to be a charlatan, otherwise the crowd will throw stones at you."
-Nicolas Chamfort
-Nicolas Chamfort
“What a strong and continuous will is capable of is not always appreciated. Nothing resists it; neither nature, gods, nor men.” — Gustave Le Bon
"Explaining something makes it go away. Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable." - Edward Gorey
How do you design a life that doesn't put work first? The answer, my dear reader is simple. You start underachieving at work. -Paul Millerd in The Pathless Path
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. Ernest Hemingway
“The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude.” —Noam Chomsky
"Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization." —Peter Kropotkin
“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne