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The Reagan Diaries

by Ronald Reagan

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Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters

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Klara and the Sun

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“in the state of mind in which we “observe” we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. There was, then, embedded in my”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece

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“Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task.”
― James Kerr, Legacy

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“Self-centredness thus enabling every human being to see the universe spread out in descending tiers beneath himself who is its lord,”
― Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time: The Complete Masterpiece

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“Just as people talk about things of no real interest to them, they also take pictures of things that have no real interest to them, and the results are uniformly boring.”
― Bruce Barnbaum, The Art of Photography: An Approach to Personal Expression

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“While in the past people of rank or status were those and only those who took risks, who had the downside for their actions, and heroes were those who did so for the sake of others, today the exact reverse is taking place. We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability. They game the system while citizens pay the price.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

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