“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
― How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life: An Unexpected Guide to Human Nature and Happiness
“I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.”
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“Rushing into action, you fail.
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
Trying to grasp things, you lose them.
Forcing a project to completion,
you ruin what was almost ripe.
Therefore the Master takes action
by letting things take their course.
He remains as calm at the end
as at the beginning.
He has nothing,
thus has nothing to lose.
What he desires is non-desire;
what he learns is to unlearn.
He simply reminds people
of who they have always been.
He cares about nothing but the Tao.
Thus he can care for all things.”
― Tao Te Ching
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
― More Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol 2
“Totalitarian regimes, they declared, all had at least five things in common: a dominant ideology, a single ruling party, a secret police force prepared to use terror, a monopoly on information, and a planned economy. By those criteria, the Soviet and Nazi regimes were not the only totalitarian states. Others—Mao’s China, for example—qualified too.”
― Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
― Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956
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