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Alexander the Great being an absolute maniac:
"For a while – a few minutes at the most and perhaps
less – the king of a vast empire fought alone inside an enemy stronghold." https://t.co/BdikdUYpZ4
When you reach the top, keep climbing. Zen proverb
Jed McKenna • Spiritual Warfare (The Enlightenment Trilogy Book 3)
Although the ch’iang-hsing (striving hard) of line six seems at odds with Lao-tzu’s dictum of wu-wei, “doing nothing/effortlessness,” commentators are agreed that here it refers to inner cultivation and not to the pursuit of worldly goals.
Red Pine • Lao-tzu's Taoteching
“Momentum is everything...Either you’re improving or regressing.”
Brain Food: Double the Pleasure
And very soon the entire world thought so. There was a popular slogan back then, which soon became a famous historical quote.” “‘Make time for civilization, for civilization won’t make time,’” Luo Ji contributed, without looking back from the window. “Right, that one. Civilization is meant for us.” “And after that?” Shi Qiang asked. “A second Enlig
... See moreCixin Liu • The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem Series Book 2)
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Sam Levenson
Even with Japan's formal surrender, the Red Army continues to sweep into occupied China, seizing territory from Mongolia to Korea. Japanese Kwantung Army has not yet been formally ordered to surrender, so pockets of fierce resistance continue fighting. https://t.co/63KuLhhHzh