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As Ayn Rand wrote: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

George Bernard Shaw once said “a reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him.
Therefore, all progress is made by unreasonable people.”

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.” – Max Planck

“If Russia fails, all bets are off for the 21st century. And if Russia succeeds as a nation-state in the family of nations, it will owe much of that success to one man, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.”...

“Everything that humans are doing now – gathering, analyzing and processing data – will be done by AI. Ten years from now, consciousness (chitta) will be valued over knowledge. This is the time human...

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Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world - few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds - justifications,...

"You have power over your mind--not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

Marcus Aurelius

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Winston Churchill once famously said that “nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A will finds a way.

Orison Swett Marde

If you invite a bear to dance...it's not you who decides when the dance is over.
-Russian proverb

"if you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don’t be surprised if he responds."

Nigel Farage

“Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.” --- Kurt Vonnegut

There are periods in the life of humanity, which generally coincide with the beginning of the fall of cultures and civilizations, when the masses irretrievably lose their reason and begin to destroy...

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite

Bertrand Russell

"Being unconquerable
lies within yourself."

Sun Tzu


"To win true freedom
you must be a slave to philosophy."

Seneca