The Jordanian monarch was a charming adventurer and political survivor—a pilot, motorcyclist, and amateur radio enthusiast who seemed to regard running secret backchannels in the Middle East as a fun perk of being king. Twetten’s trip to
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“That’s a lesson we can all learn: the more we have, the more we want. And the only cure is to break the cycle of relativity.”
― Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
― Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
“After all, the right stuff was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life (by riding on top of a Redstone or Atlas rocket). Any fool could do that (and many fools would no doubt volunteer, given the opportunity), just as any fool could throw his life away in the process. No, the idea (as all pilots understood) was that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back at the last yawning moment—but how in the name of God could you either hang it out or haul it back if you were a lab animal sealed in a pod? Every”
― The Right Stuff
― The Right Stuff
“I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that’s performing the logic.”
― More Than Human
― More Than Human
“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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