“The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”
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“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.”
― The Zahir
― The Zahir
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