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few years ago, when Toyota stumbled—initially failing to acknowledge serious problems with their braking systems, which led to a rare public embarrassment—I remember being struck that a company as smart as Toyota could act in a way that ran
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“One of our biggest challenges is making sure our life’s purpose doesn’t become a beggar’s bowl, a bottomless pit of desire continually searching for the next thing that will make us happy. That’s a losing proposition.”
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
― The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results
“From the first, the peasantry saw little to lose through Communist rule, and perhaps much to gain. Only much later, when the land is collectivized and the iron hand shows through the paternal glove, and when it is too late, does the peasant who has been Communized realize his loss. Communized, he ceases to be an individual man, losing an identity that even the most abject poverty could not take from his before.”
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
“American newspapers never again devoted much attention to the exploits or condition of the ROK Army. Consequently, few Americans have understood the ROK contribution to the Korean War, and most have tended to deprecate it.”
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
“Men are not ciphers, and hearts, even Communist hearts, are not potatoes, and Americans would do well to remember it.”
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
― This Kind of War: The Classic Military History of the Korean War
“the progress of violence always reasserted itself. The love of martial life seems to be an unquenchable human instinct”
― The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
― The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us And What We Can Do About It
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