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But the story of the golden calf also reminds us that without rules we quickly become slaves to our passions—and there’s nothing freeing about that.
“You might work on your attitude—you could think more positively. You still wouldn’t get to the right place, but perhaps you wouldn’t care. Your attitude would be so positive, you’d be happy wherever you were.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
“There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Furthermore, when their social contraptions fail to fly, ideologues blame not themselves but all who see through the simplifications.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Ideologies are simple ideas, disguised as science or philosophy, that purport to explain the complexity of the world and offer remedies that will perfect it.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Meysam’s 2025 Year in Books
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