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“notice. It may interest you to know that Marconi’s “friends” had him taken into custody, and examined in a psychopathic hospital, when he announced he had discovered a principle through which he could send messages through the air, without the aid of wires, or other direct physical means of communication. The dreamers of today fare better. The world has become accustomed to new discoveries. Nay, it has shown a willingness to reward the dreamer who gives the world a new idea. “The”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
“Charles Darwin himself recognized this problem and feared it when he wrote hauntingly: “Within me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of a man’s mind, which has been developed from the mind of lower animals, are of any value or at all trustworthy.”40 The problem being, of course, that Darwin’s theory itself was the conviction of man’s mind, and thus by his own logic, he couldn’t trust it.”
― The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity
― The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic’s Challenges to Christianity
“Thou speakest with true inspiration, Bansir. Thou bringeth to my mind a new understanding. Thou makest me to realize the reason why we have never found any measure of wealth. We never sought it.”
― The Richest Man in Babylon
― The Richest Man in Babylon
“Money, without brains, always is dangerous. Properly used, it is the most important essential of civilization. The simple breakfast here described could not have been delivered to the New York family at a dime each, or at any other price, if organized capital had not provided the machinery, the ships, the railroads, and the huge armies of trained men to operate them. Some”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
“Now, at last, we see a light, bright like that from the rising sun. It biddeth us to learn more that we may prosper more. With a new understanding we shall find honorable ways to accomplish our desires." "Let us go to Arkad this very day," Bansir urged, "Also, let us ask other friends of our boyhood days, who have fared no better than ourselves, to join us that they, too, may share in his wisdom." "Thou wert ever thus thoughtful of thy friends, Bansir. Therefore hast thou many friends. It shall be as thou sayest. We go this day and take them with us.”
― The Richest Man in Babylon
― The Richest Man in Babylon
Grant Holcombe’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Grant Holcombe’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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