Autumn

“Every Russian citizen received vouchers to buy shares of the privatized companies. But with no understanding of how capitalism worked and no laws to watch out for them, hungry workers ended up selling their vouchers on the cheap, allowing the nimble, the strong, and the ruthless to accumulate significant ownership interests in lucrative companies.”
― Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir – An Instant NYT Bestseller: A Diplomat's Story of Courage and Democracy

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Causing active ongoing pleasure in your mate is something people tend to restrict to the sexual realm or getting attractive food on the table on time, but keeping permanent intimate comedy going is more important than any other one thing.”
― Norman Rush, Mating

“I have often been struck by how much happier less powerful people can be relative to more powerful people.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail