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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
• Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity. — William Blake
• Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran
• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . .… — Eugene H. Peterson
• No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and… — John B. Jervis
• All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that… — Sun Tzu
• In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our… — Agnes Repplier
• The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this… — Erich Fromm
• Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny,… — Allan Bloom
• The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good… — George Bernard Shaw
• Many of us grow up thinking of mistakes as bad, viewing errors as evidence of fundamental incapacity. This negative thinking… — Tony Buzan
• The spirit of philosophy is one of free inquiry. It suspects all authority. Its function is to trace the uncritical… — Muhammad Iqbal

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