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“It is better to be unhappy and know, than to happy and live as a fool.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“[Subject] to mass elections, those members of society with little or no moral inhibition against taking another man's property, habitual amoralists who are most talented in assembling majorities from a multitude of morally uninhibited and mutually incompatible popular demains, efficient demagogues, will tend to gain entrance in and rise to the top of government.”
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“A major intent is to show that underlying the extraordinary complexity, diversity, and apparent messiness of the world we live in lies a surprising unity and simplicity when viewed through the lens of scale.”
― Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
― Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life, in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies
“I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“You know, it is beyond me that one can one can walk past a tree and not feel happy seeing it? How can one talk to a man and not feel happy loving him?... there are so many wonderful things at every step and turn that even the most disoriented person would find wonderful! Observe a child, observe the rising sun, observe the grass, the way it grows, look into the eyes that look back at you and love you”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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