Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
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“The income-tax law in toto has virtually no defenders, even though most fair-minded students of the subject agree that its effect over the half century that it has been in force has been to bring about a huge and healthy redistribution of wealth.”
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
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Shobeir’s 2025 Year in Books
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