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Marcus Aurelius
“In a sense, people are our proper occupation. Our job is to do them good and put up with them.
But when they obstruct our proper tasks, they become irrelevant to us—like sun, wind, animals. Our actions may be impeded by them, but there can be no impeding our intentions
or our dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the
obstacle to our acting.
The impediment to action advances action.
What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius

B.H. Liddell Hart
“Among men who rise to fame and leadership two types are recognizable-those who are born with a belief in themselves and those in whom it is a slow growth dependent on actual achievement. To men of the last type their own success is a constant surprise, and its fruits the more delicious, yet to be tested cautiously with a haunting sense of doubt whether it is not all a dream. In that doubt lies true modesty, not the sham of insincere self-depreciation but the modesty of "moderation," in the Greek sense. It”
B.H. Liddell Hart, Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American

Johann Hari
“The opposite of addiction isn’t sobriety. It’s connection.”
Johann Hari, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

Ernest Becker
“It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.”
Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

Ryan Holiday
“By the end of the war, Sherman was one of the most famous men in America, and yet he sought no public office, had no taste for politics, and wished simply to do his job and then eventually retire. Dismissing the incessant praise and attention endemic to such success, he wrote as a warning to his friend Grant, “Be natural and yourself and this glittering flattery will be as the passing breeze of the sea on a warm summer day.”
Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy

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