Mandishta
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“we shall not fall out of this world. We are in it once and for all.’)]”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of
undeserving people.”
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undeserving people.”
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“thanks to the discrepancies between people’s thoughts and their actions, and to the diversity of their wishful impulses.”
― Civilization and Its Discontents
― Civilization and Its Discontents
“Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change, whether that shift is an instantaneous or a slow and deliberate process.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”
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