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“Love work, and keep doing more. Don’t wait for your parents to lie to you and tell you they have money buried.”
― Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness

“That’s why it’s instructive to read biographies even of people whom we can never encounter, and thereby to broaden our database for understanding human behavior.”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

“[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right”
― Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

“Germany has had no monopoly on poor leadership: the U.S. and Britain and other countries have had their share. But the seas protecting the U.S. and Britain meant that inept leaders doing stupid things didn’t bring disaster upon their countries, whereas the ineptness of Wilhelm and his chancellors did bring disaster upon Germany in World War One.”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis