Favourite Bitcoin quotes not about Bitcoin
1239 sats \ 14 comments \ @carlosfandango 30 Jun 2023 bitcoin
Further to the book recommendations thread;
‘We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.’ Albert Einstein
‘Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.’ Arthur Ashe
‘The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.’ Jack London
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188 sats \ 1 reply \ @birdeye21 30 Jun 2023
"The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 30 Jun 2023
Awesome!
I also like: ‘Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.’
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167 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 30 Jun 2023
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
~ Albert Camus
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
If you don't watch the news you're uninformed, if you watch the news you're misinformed.
~ Denzel Washington
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @carlosfandango OP 30 Jun 2023
Love the Franklin one
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 30 Jun 2023
Yes, it is so true.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BBitcoinUSA 1 Jul 2023
“Never interfere when the enemy is already in the process of destroying himself”
  • Sun Tzu
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10 sats \ 6 replies \ @designsats 30 Jun 2023
"If you trade freedom for comfort, you will lose both"
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 30 Jun 2023
True. Very much in the style of Benjamin Franklin
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @designsats 30 Jun 2023
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root"
  • Thoreau
I love this one. So many of societys problems are but a symptom of fiat system
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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 30 Jun 2023
Excellent. I have looked up the original from Walden;
‘There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve’
It pretty much sums up fiat thinking. The intention is completely misaligned (unknowingly in some cases) and creates enormous harm. You can’t put out the fire from inside the house.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @designsats 30 Jun 2023
"UBI to combat inflation" .... most disgusting idea today
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carlosfandango OP 30 Jun 2023
So I get money from the government in return for nothing in the name of a greater societal good? Sounds amazing and completely ridiculous.
‘Hard work will give you power, being lazy will make you a slave… ‘
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @designsats 30 Jun 2023
paraphrasing :)
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 30 Jun 2023
Unfortunately the Einstein was not his. But very true anyways.
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