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When We Cease to Understand the World

by Benjamín Labatut

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

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More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite

by Sebastian Mallaby

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“Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern

tags: civilization, history, victory, war

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“Intensity is the price of excellence.”
― Warren Buffett

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“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo

tags: happiness, wisdom

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“Life is long if you know how to use it.”
― Seneca, On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It

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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.”
― Albert Camus

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