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“Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“Constant revolution in production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation, distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones.” Karl Marx, “Das Kapital” - 1867

“For instance, men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are conditioned.” Baruch Spinoza, “Ethics” - 1677

“In the fairy tale an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened, and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten, and cities perish. A lamp is lit, and love flies away. A flower is plucked, and human lives are...” G. K. Chesterton, “Orthodoxy” - 1908

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