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“I have toughened my nerves against all that sort of thing,” Seneca explained to that same friend about the noise. “I force my mind to concentrate, and keep it from straying to things outside itself; all outdoors may be bedlam, provided
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“As often happens in large families, the Morgenthau siblings divided along age lines. They paired up in alliances, squared off in rivalries.”
― Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
― Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty
“Like his fellow inmates, Churchill was driven by an “earnest desire to do something, however small, for the British cause,” with one important difference: “Of course, I am a man of peace. I do not fight. But swords are not the only weapons in the world. Something may be done with a pen.”
― The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
― The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor
“Belief is irresistible.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Judaism’s solution to the “happiness problem” is to view happiness as a thought, making it an infinitely renewable resource, always at our disposal, rather than an existential lottery ticket.”
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
― People of the Word: Fifty Words That Shaped Jewish Thinking
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