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Those of us who were privileged to be his friends benefited from his example, not to mention his help and encouragement, with which he was always generous.
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Eric Overby
“It’s the simple things in your life that make up the bulk of it. The mundane is where we live and we end up missing most of it. We find it again in the silence and in attention of everyday life.”
Eric Overby, 17: Haiku Poems

Seneca
“Everlasting misfortune does have one blessing, that it ends up by toughening those whom it constantly afflicts.”
Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“A saying by the brothers Geoff and Vince Graham summarizes the ludicrousness of scale-free political universalism. I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

“What nature hath joined together, multiple regression analysis cannot put asunder.”
Richard E. Nisbett, Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking

Ta-Nehisi Coates
“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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