Quotable quotes and sources~

[JoRed]

---

"To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Â* Â* Â* Â*- Sun Tzu

[tolstoi]

"...So long as a person who has made mistakes does not hide his sickness for fear of treatment or persist in his mistakes until he is beyond cure, so long as he honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash out at him. In treating an ideological or a political malady, one must never be rough and rash but must adopt the approach of "curing the sickness to save the patient", which is the only correct and effective method."

- Mao Tse-tung (1942)

Premise: Disagreement with the government is a sickness, and is an entity separate from the afflicted.

Conclusion: The government must offer a gentle cure for a willing patient.

[samokan]

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.
- Life of Pi by Yann Patel

[Jacopo]

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

[JoRed]

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
Â* Â*-Adolf Hitler

[JoRed]

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
-Woodrow Wilson

[Jacopo]

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

[bud_boy79]

"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a
goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always
do better and you can always grow."

[JoRed]

Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
- King Whitney Jr.

[Jacopo]

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)