Gemma
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“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”
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“Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.”
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
― Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination
“«Al mattino, quando non hai voglia di alzarti, ti sia presente questo pensiero: mi sveglio per compiere il mio mestiere di uomo». Cosí scrive l’imperatore Marco Aurelio (Pensieri, V, 1)”
― Il mestiere di uomo
― Il mestiere di uomo
“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”
― Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
― Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
“The commodity traders are arbitragers par excellence, trying to exploit a series of differences in prices. Because they’re doing deals to buy and to sell all the time, they are often indifferent to whether commodity prices overall go up or down. What matters to them is the price disparity – between different locations, different qualities or forms of a product, and different delivery dates. By exploiting these price differences, they help to make markets more efficient, directing resources to their highest value uses in response to price signals. They are, in the words of one academic, the visible manifestation of Adam Smith’s invisible hand.”
― The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
― The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources
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