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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
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“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
― Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches
“We conclude that the concentration of wealth is natural and inevitable, and is periodically alleviated by violent or peaceable partial redistribution. In this view all economic history is the slow heartbeat of the social organism, a vast systole and diastole of concentrating wealth and compulsive recirculation.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“In progressive societies the concentration may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
“Tell that to the jury The judge who is overseeing the trial of Eike Batista on insider-trading charges was caught driving a Porsche that once belonged to the Brazilian tycoon. Mr Batista’s assets have been seized by the police, but the judge thought the Porsche was not being held securely, and he wanted it “preserved in good condition”, so he decided “to look after it”.”
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Mathias Jonsson’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mathias Jonsson’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Biography, Business, Classics, Fiction, Food, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Science fiction, and Self help
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