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There is a quotation from Genesis about the Tower of Babel at the head of Chapter 1. It may be remembered that this was a project to build ‘a tower with its top in the heavens’. However, I do not think any theologian has ever inquired to ...more
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Ray Dalio
“Every time you confront something painful, you are at a potentially important juncture in your life— you have the opportunity to choose healthy and painful truth or unhealthy but comfortable delusion.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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