“Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world’s, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship. —Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov”
― The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
― The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
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“Hard-nosed. Gritty. Playing through pain. Stoic. Exhibiting emotional fortitude. Showing no signs of distress. Persevering. When college students were asked to describe what it meant to be tough, these words and phrases came to mind.”
― Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
― Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness
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