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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.
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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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