Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping their outcomes towards success or failure: long-term planning, and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection, we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Can we ever have too much of a good thing? Don Quixote
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Pride and Prejudice
I recommend all adventurous youths who abandon vessels in romantic islands during the rainy season to provide themselves with umbrellas. Typee
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