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“Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.”
― The Stand
― The Stand
“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown the light again and again, growing stronger each time. If you think it will keep for the times you need it, you are wrong. It is like any other part of your strength. If you ignore it, the bag will be empty when you need it most.”
― Genghis: Birth of an Empire
― Genghis: Birth of an Empire
“There was no justice in the world—unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.”
― Genghis: Birth of an Empire
― Genghis: Birth of an Empire
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
― The Winner Stands Alone
― The Winner Stands Alone
“And in the words of Nassim Taleb, “Curiosity is antifragile, like an addiction; magnified by attempts to satisfy it.”
― The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
― The Joys of Compounding: The Passionate Pursuit of Lifelong Learning, Revised and Updated
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