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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.
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― A Little Life
“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
“But now he knew: you always sacrificed something. The question was what you sacrificed.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“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.”
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
― The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
“One thing I have learned is that the most effective strategy at all times and in all places--in court, in politics, and in life--is centering your heart with the most vulnerable people and animals and ecosystems, and then relentlessly telling the truth about what you see.”
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