“No experience can ever be repeated, and in this fact we find all the tragedy of life and at the same time its glory—its irrepressible movement.”
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“Alex felt something dark inside her uncoil. “You’re a flat beast,” Hellie had once said to her. “Got a little viper lurking in there, ready to strike. A rattler probably.” She’d said it with a grin, but she’d been right.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
“This rare ability to manage continuity and change—requiring a consciously practiced discipline—is closely linked to the ability to develop a vision.”
― HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
― HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy
“Money has ears. Be careful what you say to it. And be careful what you say about it. Because money will behave towards you according to what you say to it and according to how you feel about it.”
― The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
― The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic
“The heart of being a radical isn’t knowing all the right books, it isn’t about kings over the sea or the parliament over in the capital. It’s… looking at the world around you and seeing the things that make you sick to your stomach with anger. The things there’s no point making a fuss about because that’s just the way the world is, and always was and always will be. And then it means getting good and angry about it anyway, and kickin’ up a hurricane. Because nothing is writ across the sky to say the world must be this way. A tree can grow two hundred years, and look like it’ll last a thousand more - but when lightning strikes at last, it burns.”
― Fly Trap
― Fly Trap
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