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According to brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright of Dayton, Ohio, it began for them with a toy from France, a small helicopter brought home by their father, Bishop Milton Wright, a great believer in the educational value of toys. The
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“She'd confused honour with virtue. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honorable way—the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason—and you can enforce the peace without any honor at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble. And gangsters, just like cops, politicians, soldiers, and holy men, are only ever good at what they do if they stay humble.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“To cover their tracks even further, the boomers have stuffed their heirs with sufficient pseudo-knowledge to make them feel as if they know enough about the past to judge themselves superior to it.”
― Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
― Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster
“Britain could become the first country in modern history to transition from a developed nation to an underdeveloped one.”
― When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
― When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
“From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves.”
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
― The Coming Wave: AI, Power, and Our Future
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