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#1

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

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#2

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: life, travel

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#3

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#4

“Everything I do now
Was once an unremembered dream.
-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis”
― Don Murphy, EPOCH

tags: quantum-space, science-fiction, spacetime

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#5

“You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2+2=5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one.”
― Mikhail Tal

tags: chess-quotes

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#6

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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#7

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
― Epicurus

tags: death

239 likes

#8

“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow”
― T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

616 likes

#9

“Truth can only be found in one place: the code.”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

tags: programming, software-craftmanship, software-design, software-engineering

89 likes

#10

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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#11

“Without Revolutionary theory, there can be no Revolutionary Movement.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, marxism, radicalism, rebellion, revolution, socialism

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#12

“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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#13

“Discipline equals freedom.”
― Jocko Willink, Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

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#14

“Through discipline comes freedom.”
― Aristotle

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#15

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
― Vladimir Lenin

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism

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#16

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”
― Herbert Marcuse

tags: domination, elections, freedom, government, radicalism, representative-democracy, subjugation

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#17

“There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.”
― Mark Twain, Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review

tags: ideas

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