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““The better ambitions have to do with the development of character and ability, rather than status and power. Status you can lose. You carry character with you wherever you go, and it allows you to prevail against adversity.””
12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos • Jordan B. Peterson“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”
Book IV • Marcus Aurelius““This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka“ Food production, and competition and diffusion between societies, led as ultimate causes ... of conquest. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“Guy don't need no sense to be a nice fella. Seems to me sometimes it jus' works the other way around. Take a real smart guy and he ain't hardly ever a nice fella.”
Of Mice and Men • John Steinbeck