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There are two ends to a stick, and there’s more than one way of working. If it’s for human beings—make sure and do it properly. If it’s for the big man—just make it look good.
Michael Simsa
Not The MAn, the Big Man
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Mikhail Bulgakov
“There is, if you don't mind my saying so, something sinister about men who avoid wine, games, the company of charming women, and good dinner-table conversation. People like that are either seriously ill or they secretly disdain their fellow men.”
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

C.G. Jung
“It is, unfortunately, only too clear that if the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either, for society is the sum total of the individuals in need of redemption.”
C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

C.G. Jung
“Even if, juristically speaking, we are not accessories to the crime, we are always, thanks to our human nature, potential criminals. In reality we merely lacked a suitable opportunity to be drawn into the infernal melee.”
C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

C.G. Jung
“A symbol does not disguise, it reveals in time.”
C.G. Jung, The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

Meg Jay
“Dating for me in my twenties was like this musical-chairs thing. Everybody was running around and having fun. Then I hit thirty and it was like the music stopped and everybody started sitting down. I didn’t want to be the only one left without a chair. Sometimes I think I married my husband just because he was the closest chair to me at thirty. Sometimes I think I should have just waited for someone who might be a better partner, and maybe I should have, but that seemed risky. What I really wish I’d done is thought more about marriage sooner. Like when I was in my twenties.”
Meg Jay, The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now

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