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#1

“An antique saying has it that a man's life is incomplete unless or until he has tasted love, poverty, and war.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays

tags: inspirational, meaning

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#2

“Success leads to laxity and bloat and this leads to decline. Few avoid this tragic arch. Only where there is starvation will you find a tightly crafted and integrated set of actions and policies.”
― Richard P. Rumelt, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

tags: business, strategy

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#3

“As we care about more of humanity, we’re apt to mistake the harms around us for signs of how low the world has sunk rather than how high our standards have risen.”
― Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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#4

“Most actions do not aim at anybody’s defeat or loss. They aim at an improvement in conditions.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: economics, mises

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#5

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

tags: aggression, anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, coercion, collectivism, communism, economics, evil, free, free-market, freedom, government, initiation-of-force, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, mafia, non-aggression-principle, state, statism, taxation, theft, trade, voluntaryism

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#6

“When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone’s thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a “case” with deliberate suppression of his opponent’s point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.”
― George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: 1937-1939

tags: conservatism, honesty, leftism, liberalism, patriotism, politics, progressivism, research, rightism, the-left, the-right

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#7

“if you're wrong, you will die. But most companies don't die because they are wrong; most die because they don't commit themselves. They fritter away their valuable resources while attempting to make a decision. The greatest danger is in Standing still”
― Andrew S. Grove, Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company and Career

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#8

“If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

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