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Book cover for Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki
Wealth brings great anxiety, while with poverty come fierce resentments. Dependence on others puts you in their power, while care for others will snare you in the worldly attachments of affection. Follow the social rules, and they hem you ...more
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“A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.”
African Proverb

Yoshida Kenkō
“It is the ephemeral nature of things that makes them wonderful.”
Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
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Yoshida Kenkō
“If you follow the ways of the world, your heart will be drawn to its sensual defilements and easily led astray; if you go among people, your words will be guided by others' responses rather than come from the heart.”
Yoshida Kenkō, A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Ziad K. Abdelnour
“We live in an era of smart phones and stupid people.... Go figure.”
Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

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