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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone

by David Carey

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Chokepoints: How the Global Economy Became a Weapon of War

by Edward Fishman (Goodreads Author)

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Matt’s Quotes

“The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.”
― Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

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“I am not deep, but I am very wide.”
― Balzac

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“The demand to give up the illusions about its condition is the demand to give up a condition that needs illusions”
― Karl Marx

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“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”
― Marcel Proust

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“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

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