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it’s hard to develop sophisticated arts, learning, or commerce if the institutions that support them are looted and burned as quickly as they are built.
“Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales——”
― Prophet Song
― Prophet Song
“Organizations are no longer built on force but on trust. The existence of trust between people does not necessarily mean that they like one another. It means that they understand one another. Taking responsibility for relationships is therefore an absolute necessity. It is a duty. Whether one is a member of the organization, a consultant to it, a supplier, or a distributor, one owes that responsibility to all one’s coworkers: those whose work one depends on as well as those who depend on one’s own work.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
“The news, according to dozens of studies, is a mental health hazard.”
― Humankind: A Hopeful History
― Humankind: A Hopeful History
“Dictators and despots, governors and generals-they all to often resort to brute force to prevent scenarios that exist only in their own heads, on the assumption that the average Joe is ruled by self-interest, just like them.”
― Humankind: A Hopeful History
― Humankind: A Hopeful History
“Values, in other words, are and should be the ultimate test.”
― Managing Oneself
― Managing Oneself
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