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An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.

William C. Brown

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William C. Brown
Age: 82 †
Born: 1916
Born: May 22
Died: 1999
Died: February 3
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Never underestimate the enemy, above all if he is a stupid one and deserves to be killed.
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Communism has failed capitalism has failed common sense has failed now has to fail stupidity.
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Italian politicians are stupid and expensive, that's why they should be fired, abolished, or better eliminated.
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What's the advantage to have hundreds of words to define stupidity, when the essence is always the same.
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If you can't share wealth, prosperity and happiness, then you must at least share suffering, pain and death. To destroy in order to create!
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In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old topos of war in time of peace.
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Religion is only literature, but luckily literature is not only religion.
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If you don't like trading, gambling and betting, then you don't like living.
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First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.
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An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and illusions of certainty and probability, history and stupidity.
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Trading is more or less like betting or gambling, but only without the pleasure show of the game.
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When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc. now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.
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