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And as word spread, the small Amazon team saw almost immediately that they had opened a strange window onto human behavior. The Internet’s early adopters ordered computer manuals, Dilbert comic collections, books on repairing antique
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“one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: “The older one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this miserable universe.” Sorel”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“God forgives, the Finns do not.’ This”
― Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40
― Finland at War: The Winter War 1939-40
“this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life, and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you. And”
― The Prince
― The Prince
“But the matter just about resolved itself of its own accord, in a tragic and macabre way. We were still at war, and among other things Dönitz could only answer, ‘There is no longer any point in concerning yourself with submariners. Most of them are no longer with us …’.”
― Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel
― Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel
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