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Dr. Byron Ernest
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“Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn’t need a four-colored label to make it go.”
― Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated
― Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated
“One of my most deeply held assumptions about human life is that without freedom of thought humans cannot fully evolve.”
― The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
― The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
“One lesson of the Luddite rebellion specifically, and the Industrial Revolution generally, is that maintaining the prosperity of those closed communities—their pride in workmanship as well as their economic well-being—can only be paid for by those outside the communities: by society at large.”
― The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
― The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
“It has been my experience that, even when a man has a sense of humor, it only really carries him to the point where he will join in a laugh at the expense of the other fellow. There’s nothing in the world sicker-looking than the grin of the man who’s trying to join in heartily when the laugh’s on him, and to pretend that he likes it. ”
― Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated
― Letters From A Merchant To His Son: Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son Classics, Letters From A Self-Made Merchant To His Son George Horace Lorimer Illustrated and Annotated
“there are three factors that help us overcome the terror of mortality: emotionally significant attachments to spouses, parents, children, and friends (a factor not dealt with in this book); a worldview that provides us with an understanding of the world and our place in it, and provides us with meaning; and finally, self-esteem, which is derived from the feedback of our close attachments, our sense that we are living valuable lives as defined in our worldview, and our perception of our place in the world at large.”
― The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
― The Fear of Insignificance: Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
Dr. Byron Ernest’s 2025 Year in Books
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