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“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
“NATIONS FAIL TODAY because their extractive economic institutions do not create the incentives needed for people to save, invest, and innovate. Extractive political institutions support these economic institutions by cementing the power of those who benefit from the extraction.”
― Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
― Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
“No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow.”
― Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
― Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
“Think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
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