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“In any economic or political crisis, one thing is certain. Many learned experts will prescribe many different remedies”
― The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
― The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
“Shift your goals from the external to the internal: repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable”
― A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living
― A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living
“(...) a tristeza é um estado da riqueza.”
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“true heroes never are the ones Who make much noise about their deeds”
― Tartuffe
― Tartuffe
“Feelings are the mental expressions of homeostasis, while homeostasis, acting under the cover of feeling, is the functional thread that links early life-forms to the extraordinary partnership of bodies and nervous systems. That partnership is responsible for the emergence of conscious, feeling minds that are, in turn, responsible for what is most distinctive about humanity: cultures and civilizations. Feelings are at the center of the book, but they draw their powers from homeostasis.”
― The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of the Cultural Mind
― The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of the Cultural Mind
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