“Taft himself had visited as secretary of war in ’07, before becoming president. He called the camps a “sewer of sin” and “a sore on an otherwise beautiful national forest.” In response, the Montana side gleefully voted to take his name.”
― The Cold Millions
― The Cold Millions
“It’s like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”
― The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
― The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
“So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“Hebrew was not a language Len knew; he had grown up observant only in the sense that he noticed things.”
― The Golem of Brooklyn
― The Golem of Brooklyn
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