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"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn’t want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn’t want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world..."

- Alessandro Luongo

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things..."

- Rilke

"You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be..."

"We suffer more in imagination than in reality..."

"The whole future lies in uncertainty; live immediately..."

- Seneca

"A healthy person has a thousand dreams - a sick person has only one..."

- Tony Robbins

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free..."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master..."

- unknown

"Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want..."

- Randy Pausch

"Earth is a kingdom, not a planet. It is not an object, hence it has no edge. Earth would be easier to define as a systemic medium. Earth is also a machine, it is a Tesla coil. The sun and moon are wirelessly powered by an electromagnetic field (Aether). This field also suspends the celestial spheres by electromagnetic levitation. Electromagnetic levitation disproves gravity because the only force you have to oppose is the electromagnetic force, not gravity. The stars are attached to the firmament..."

"I don’t care that they stole my idea. I care that they don’t have any of their own..."

- Nikola Tesla

“Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all...”

- Voltaire

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..."

- Oscar Wilde

"There is no losing in jiu jitsu. You either win or you learn..."

"My opponent is my teacher, my ego is my enemy..."

- Carlos Gracie Sr. & Renzo Gracie

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be..."

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win...”

— Mahatma Gandhi

"Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six..."

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

“When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat..."

- comedian George Carlin

"You can't keep blaming yourself - blame yourself, and move on..."

- Homer Simpson

"Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather..."

- John Perry Barlow

“Wars are not won by fighting battles; wars are won by choosing battles...”

- General Patton

"It aint what you don’t know that gets you into trouble - it’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so..."

- Mark Twain

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away..."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave..."

- Frederick Douglass

"If it costs you your peace, it's too expensive..."

- Paulo Coelho

"It is very easy to defeat someone, but very difficult to win someone..."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by...”

― Sun Tzu

“Focus on improving rather than proving...”

― BJJ legend Cobrinha

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right...”

- Henry Ford

“If wars can be started by lies, they can be stopped by truth...”

- Julian Assange

"Who am I voting for? No one. Why would I choose one person over another to control me? Slave masters are the same. We are numbers rather than people, irrespective of the master..."

- John McAfee

"Those who don’t change will perish, but so will those who do..."

- Park Sae-Bo

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails...”

- William Arthur Ward

“We all got it comin’ to us...”

- Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

"If 'if’ was a fifth, we’d all be drunk!..."

- comedian Tracy Morgan

“If you cannot trust yourself, you cannot even trust your mistrust of yourself..."

— Alan Watts

"The crisis is not out there in the world, it is within our own consciousness... Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true...What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world..."

"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence..."

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society..."

- J Krishnamurti

”When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

— Maya Angelou

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable..."

- John F. Kennedy

"You don’t always know if you’re doing the right thing, but you always know when you’re doing the wrong thing...”

- comedian Rich Vos

"Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen..."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In the end they're not after me - they're after you, and I just happen to be standing in the way..."

- Donald Trump

"A dog with two owners dies of hunger..."

- Idiom, unknown origin

"If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son..."

- Rudyard Kipling

"Every seed grows in the dark..."

- Vitor Belfort

"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned..."

- scientist Richard Feynman

"The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over..."

“In a nation of frightened dullards there is a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome..."

“The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits..."

- Hunter S. Thompson

"If you need a witness, be your own..."

- Epictetus

"Good artists copy, great artists steal..."

- Pablo Picasso

“You still say hello...”

- Uncle Leo