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“because to work means to sacrifice the hypothetical delights of the present for the potential improvement of what lies ahead.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“Ambition is often—and often purposefully—misidentified with the desire for power,”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“Sanity is knowing the rules of the social game,”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“A responsible person decides to make a problem his or her problem, and then works diligently—even ambitiously—for its solution,”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“If you do so, you will run right into the iteration problem, because “happy” is a right-now thing. If you place people in situations where they are feeling a lot of positive emotion, they get present-focused and impulsive.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
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