Bryan

“A basic dividing line is age fifty,” says Edward Rogoff, economist at Baruch College, City University of New York. “You lose a good job at age fifty, the chances of getting another are small, so you do something else. You start your own business.”
― Chris Farrell, Unretirement: How Baby Boomers are Changing the Way We Think About Work, Community, and the Good Life

“Confucius, the philosopher and politician who was born in the sixth century B.C.E. He acquired a place in Chinese history akin to that of Socrates in the West, in part because his ideology encouraged order and loyalty. “There is government,” Confucius said, “when the prince is prince, and the minister is minister; when the father is father, and the son is son.” Confucius linked morality to the strength of the state: “He who exercises government by means of virtue may be compared to the North Star, which holds its place while all other stars turn around it.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“Hope is like a path in the countryside: originally there was no path, but once people begin to pass, a way appears.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.”
― Richard Florida, The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity