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“Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”
― General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
― General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money
“Democracy is a con game. It’s a word invented to placate people to make them accept a given institution. All institutions sing, ‘We are free.’ The minute you hear ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’, watch out… because in a truly free nation, no one has to tell you you’re free.”
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“Working hard for something we don't care about is called stress: Working hard for something we love is called passion.”
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“Either we learn to live together in full cooperation or we will cause our own extinction.”
― The Best That Money Can't Buy
― The Best That Money Can't Buy
“It is only half an hour’–’It is only an afternoon’–’It is only an evening,’ people say to me over and over again; but they don’t know that it is impossible to command one’s self sometimes to any stipulated and set disposal of five minutes–or that the mere consciousness of an engagement will sometime worry a whole day… Who ever is devoted to an art must be content to deliver himself wholly up to it, and to find his recompense in it. I am grieved if you suspect me of not wanting to see you, but I can’t help it; I must go in my way whether or no.”
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Ulf’s 2024 Year in Books
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