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But our strengths don’t serve us well in every circumstance at every phase of our lives. As we grow and enter new contexts, our longer-term strengths can suddenly hamper our worldly progress, which in turn can create dissonance at home.
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
― Man's Search For Ultimate Meaning
“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”
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“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“Just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
Keegan’s 2025 Year in Books
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