Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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One thing Entrepreneurs have, is we are too stupid to know we are going to fail. No startup makes any sense otherwise it would already exist.

-Scott Galloway

It’s not easy to come up with new & exciting ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ones.

-Noam Chomsky

The main problem with the internet is it has driven the proximal price of being a prick down to zero.

-Your Mother last night

The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone real ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

-Private author about US Politics

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

In Geopolitics the phrase exists: “Doing so would be an international crime; but even worse than illegal, is ineffective.”

-Christopher Hudgens

Style is the stuff you get wrong.

-Neil Gaiman

Assyria soon discovered a painful truth: empires are like Ponzi schemes… They must continue to expand if they are not to collapse.

-Paul Kriwaczek

No man who opposes the unrighteousness of the state lives long if he is in a public position.

-Socrates, while at trial