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In its approach, China had essentially detonated a social nuclear weapon. And so it was able to stop the spread of the virus. By late March, the number of new reported cases in the nation dropped from thousands per day to less than fifty
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“Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.”
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“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.”
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“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.”
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“The great adventure of our epoch, he says, is “to discover who inhabits the world, one individual at a time.”
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
― How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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