Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.
~ Peter Drucker
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In school, a lot of success is individual: How do I stand out? In life, most success is team-based: How can we work together? Grades reveal who is persistent, self-disciplined, and compliant—but they don’t reveal much about emotional intelligence, relationship skills, passion, leadership ability, creativity, or courage.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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To understand is to forgive.
~ Blaise Pascal
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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
~ William S. Burroughs
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Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate.
~ Lewis Mumford
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The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.
~ David Foster Wallace
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Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.
~ David Foster Wallace
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There is no inquiry which is not finally reducible to a question of numbers.
~ Auguste Comte
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Against foreign powers, a prince can defend himself with good weapons and good friends; if he has good weapons, he will never lack for good friends.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The quintessential Levy subject is a member of the intelligentsia, a historian studying male tyrants, a poet, a doctoral student in anthropology. These characters are 21st-century Herzogs, who can’t help but channel their neuroses through the prism of their intellectual fixations.
~ Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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