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The Mocktown Principle: Why Doing Nothing Is Sometimes the Most Powerful Thing You Can Do

This post was written on 6/18/2026. There is a scene in One Piece that does not have a lot of explosions. Nobody gets sent flying through a wall. No Haki crackles in the air. No finishing move is declared. And yet, for anyone who has ever been tested by someone who simply was not worth their time, the Mocktown bar scene on the island of Jaya might be the most quietly powerful moment in the entire series. Luffy and Zoro sit there, drinks in hand, while Bellamy and his crew hurl insults at […]

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WIST Quotations 4d ago

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA: I know indeed what evil I intend to do,
   But stronger than all my afterthoughts is my fury,
   Fury that brings upon mortals the greatest evils.

[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: Καὶ μανθάνω μὲν οἷα τολμήσω κακά,
   θυμὸς δὲ κρείσσων τῶν ἐμῶν βουλευμάτων,
   ὅσπερ μεγίστων αἴτιος κακῶν βροτοῖς.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1078ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/84529/

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WIST Quotations Jun 10

A quotation from Montaigne

No wind serves him who has no port of destination.

[Nul vent fait pour celuy qui n’a point de port destiné.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1), “Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions [De l’inconstance de nos actions]” (1572) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1), "Of the Inconsistency of Our Actions [De l’inconstance de nos actions]" (1572) [tr. Zeitlin (1934)] | WIST Quotations

No wind serves him who has no port of destination. [Nul vent fait pour celuy qui n’a point de port destiné. ] This passage was in the essays initial 1580 printing. Likely from a quotation of Seneca the Younger (1st C AD). (Source (French)). Alternate translations: No winde makes for…

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