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Many, perhaps most, investors seek to place themselves in such an intermediate category; in our opinion that is a compromise that is more likely to produce disappointment than achievement.
“It has always been the regular state of things. There is no clarity, no relief. At he end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“I'm mostly selfish and vain, but sometimes even I surprise myself. We're all just ordinary men--well, I'm an ordinary demon--faced with extraordinary choices. In those moments, sometimes heroic ideals demand that we become their avatars.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“Our lives are ruled by these small, seemingly ordinary moments hat turn out to have improbably large effects. Such randomness is much more common in human affairs than in nature...”
― The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
― The Man Who Ended History: A Documentary
“Everyone knows that sadness and grief are the price of admission for the experiences of joy and connection.”
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“Sharing difficult truths might come with a cost—the need to face them—but there’s also a reward: freedom. The truth releases us from shame.”
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
― Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
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