Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I’ve practiced.”
“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
“Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral clarity. Yet we routinely hear this Israel–Gaza fighting described as a morally equivalent “cycle of violence.” This is absurd. What possible interest can Israel have in cross-border fighting?”
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“Reading Working Out Loud by @johnstepper”
― Working Out Loud: For a better career and life
― Working Out Loud: For a better career and life
“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
“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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