There was little common ground. It was like having Thanksgiving dinner with a family eating together by court order.
“None of us live in an objective world, but instead in a subjective world that we ourselves have given meaning to. The world you see is different from the one I see, and it’s impossible to share your world with anyone else.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Citing the constitutional right to counsel is a convenient way for giant firms to rationalize this representation and to preempt criticism—or even scrutiny—of whom elite lawyers serve and how they serve them.”
― Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
― Servants of the Damned: Giant Law Firms, Donald Trump, and the Corruption of Justice
“If one is living in a such a way as to satisfy other people’s expectations, and one is entrusting one’s own life to others, that is a way of living in which one is lying to oneself and continuing that lying to include the people around one.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
― The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“And as with the Palestinians, Uyghurs’ pain at the loss of control over their homeland was exacerbated by cultural and ideological frictions with the potential to spark explosions of righteous anger.”
― Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
― Surveillance State: China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control
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