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“[Y]ou cannot mention everything in its proper place, you must choose, between the things not worth mentioning and those and those even less so.”
― Molloy
― Molloy
“People are policy! Without the best people in place, the best ideas don’t matter. —DR. ED FEULNER”
― Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life
― Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life
“I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know.”
― Intimacies
― Intimacies
“When I consider life, 't is all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit,
Trust on and think to-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day.”
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Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit,
Trust on and think to-morrow will repay;
To-morrow's falser than the former day.”
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“The logic of pessimism moves through three refusals: a no-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-for-us, or Schopenhauer’s tears); a yes-saying to the worst (refusal of the world-in-itself, or Nietzsche’s laughter); and a no-saying to the for-us and the in-itself (a double refusal, or Cioran’s sleep).
Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
― Cosmic Pessimism
Crying, laughing, sleeping—what other responses are adequate to a life that is so indifferent?”
― Cosmic Pessimism
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