”Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
”Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy ready-made things in the shops. But since there are no shops where you can buy friends, men no longer have any friends.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
”Math is not about memorizing formulas without meaning, but rather about learning how to reason logically through precise statements"
Dr. Po-Shen Loh
Edmund Burke 200 years ago:
”The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
”The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
”Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
.. and many more.
”Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
”The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”
💬 Sun Tzu, The Art of War
”If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.“
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
“Just remember folks that life is not a rehearsal, so you better get on with it.
Tommy Emmanuel
“Better to be present with a bad note than absent from a good note.”
Robert Fripp
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Issac Asimov