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Sun Tzu photo

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.”

Sun Tzu (-543–-495 BC) ancient Chinese military general, strategist and philosopher from the Zhou Dynasty

Source: The Art of War, Chapter III · Strategic Attack

Hatake Kakashi photo
Barack Obama photo
Francis of Assisi photo
Marilyn Manson photo

“Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Source: Marilyn Manson Talking

Anne Frank photo

“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

George Orwell photo

“Big Brother is Watching You.”

Source: 1984

Robert Baden-Powell photo

“The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.”

Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

Letter (September 1940)

Harry Styles photo

“No. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about.”

Harry Styles (1994) English singer, songwriter, and actor

When asked by a radio DJ if One Direction calls "dibs" on girls (26 June 2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV85tICyfEA&t=546

Mwanandeke Kindembo photo
Kobe Bryant photo
Freddie Mercury photo

“This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along… and making this a great occasion.”

Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) British singer, songwriter and record producer

Source: Live Aid, 1985/07/13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc?t=12m5s

Erwin Rommel photo

“In a man to man fight, the winner is he who has one more round within himself.”

Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II

Den Kampf Mann gegen Mann gewinnt bei gleichwertigen Gegnern, wer eine Patrone mehr im Lauf hat.
Source: Infanterie greift an (1937), p. 62.

Lana Del Rey photo

“Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.”

Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter

Complex (24 January 2012)

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Dead Poets Society quote: “I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”

“I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.”

Neil Perry character
Context: Modified passage from the book Walden by Henry David Thoreau. Full citation:
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."