“Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete strangers to know how to treat one another without wasting the time and energy needed to become personally acquainted.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. Never Give In!
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory. Meditations
It has always seemed strange to me ... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. Cannery Row
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