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"Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time."

The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit.

Che Guevara is an incredible individual. He had so much, but sacrificed it all for the benefit of other people.

If they lock me up, at least I'll have a place to stay.

Life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire.

USA Today (2005)

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

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To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Confucius

Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power.

Martin Buber Between Man and Man (1965)

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010)

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