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Dad Is Fat
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It is also ironic that in high school, the jocks were cool and the nerds were not cool. Now the nerds are the tastemakers. The nerds are rich and successful, and those jocks are dumb divorced guys with beer bellies.
“The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like [the wrong-doer].”
― Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
― Thoughts of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“Humility: It is better to presume ignorance and invite learning than to assume sufficient knowledge and risk the consequent blindness.”
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
― Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life
“At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want, charity, all knock at once at thy closet door, and say, — ‘Come out unto us.’ But keep thy state; come not into their confusion. The power men possess to annoy me, I give them by a weak curiosity. No man can come near me but through my act.”
― Self-Reliance
― Self-Reliance
“Terribleness is part of greatness: let us not deceive ourselves.”
― The Will to Power
― The Will to Power
“It should freak you out that gangsters can agree on a code of behavior but designers can’t. Crime is more organized than design.”
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
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