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“If you’re not failing, you’re not pushing your limits, and if you’re not pushing your limits, you’re not maximizing your potential”
― Principles: Life and Work
― Principles: Life and Work
“Pain + Reflection = Progress”
― Principles: Summary
― Principles: Summary
“We think of globalisation as a uniquely modern phenomenon; yet 2,000 years ago too, it was a fact of life, one that presented opportunities, created problems and prompted technological advance.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
“A talent for following the ways of yesterday’, declared King Wu-ling in 307 BC, ‘is not sufficient to improve the world of today.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
“So widespread was slavery in the Mediterranean and the Arabic world that even today regular greetings reference human trafficking. All over Italy, when they meet, people say to each other, “schiavo,” from a Venetian dialect. “Ciao,” as it is more commonly spelt, does not mean “hello”; it means “I am your slave.”
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
― The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
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