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“There is no possible protection from technology except by technology,” he wrote. “When you create a new environment with one phase of technology,”
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
“expectation of an event creates a much deeper impression … than the event itself.”—de”
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
“In the end, rage, no matter how profoundly justified, destroys the enraged.”
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
― Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Living Philosophies
― Living Philosophies
“Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of other men —above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received and am still receiving.”
― Living Philosophies
― Living Philosophies
Srinivas’s 2025 Year in Books
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