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His answer began with a thought experiment: if a team had an on-base percentage of 1.000 (referred to as “a thousand”)—that is, every hitter got on base—how many runs would it score?* An infinite number of runs, since the team would never
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“We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life.”
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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Into the Wild
― Into the Wild
“I just look at it as ‘What grades do I need to get where I want to go?”
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
― Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
“The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads,”
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
― Elon Musk: Inventing the Future
“For there are two possible reactions to social ostracism— either a man emerges determined to be better, purer, and kindlier or he goes bad, challenges the world and does even worse things. This last is by far the commonest reaction to stigma.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
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