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The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
~ Joan Didion
An economy that gives most people the chance for a decent life doesn’t arise by accident or through impersonal forces.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Scale will get you strategy.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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The prince who relies upon their words, without having otherwise provided for his security, is ruined; for friendships that are won by awards, and not by greatness and nobility of soul, although deserved, yet are not real, and cannot be depended upon in time of adversity.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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