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“During critical junctures, a major event or confluence of factors disrupts the existing balance of political or economic power in a nation.”
― Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson

“They might both have been praying for their daughter's safety, but that didn't make their relationship anything more than that of a normal marriage. He was certain the insecurity and fragility that was creeping between them was no different from the kind that existed between every husband and wife.”
― Hideo Yokoyama, Six Four

“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
― Steve Jobs

“He (a teacher at school) was the epitome of the Oxonian code of "effortless superiority" whereby to be seen trying really hard to achieve something was in many ways worse than actually failing it.”
― John Cleese, So, Anyway...