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Os sertões
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umbuzeiro É a árvore sagrada do sertão. Sócia fiel das rápidas horas felizes e longos dias amargos dos vaqueiros. Representa o mais frisante exemplo de adaptação da flora sertaneja. Foi, talvez, de talhe mais vigoroso e alto — e veio
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“Ben Graham gave us the same lesson: “In the short run the market is a voting machine but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”51”
― The Warren Buffett Way
― The Warren Buffett Way
“Essa angústia, prolongando-se, arriscava-se a desagregar uma sociedade, assim como pode fender um indivíduo submetido a estresses repetidos. Podia provocar um fenômeno de inadaptação, uma regressão do pensamento e da afetividade, uma multiplicação das fobias; introduzir uma dose excessiva de negatividade e desespero. JEAN DELUMEAU: HISTÓRIA DO MEDO NO OCIDENTE”
― El miedo en Occidente
― El miedo en Occidente
“a quote from the venerable martial artist Bruce Lee, which he hoped would serve as inspiration: “There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.” I”
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
― Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
“Buffett quoted Keynes: “The difficulty lies not in the new ideas but in escaping from the old ones.” Buffett”
― The Warren Buffett Way
― The Warren Buffett Way
“Autumn is the season of subtractions, the Japanese art of taking more and more away to charge the few things that remain. At least four times as many classical poems are set in autumn and spring, the seasons of transition, than in summer and winter. But what that means, I realize as the years pass, is that nothing can be taken for granted; people are on alert, wide awake, ready to seize each day as a blessing because the next one can't be counted on.”
― Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
― Autumn Light: Season of Fire and Farewells
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