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“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
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“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― The Closing of the American Mind
― The Closing of the American Mind
“I’ve got a sizeable retirement nest egg. It’s an ostrich egg, and it’s going to make an omelet so big that it’ll produce enough leftovers for decades.
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― The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
― The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.
“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
― Studies in Pessimism: The Essays
“The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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