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“What should we be doing in the meantime?” “All of the things you will look back on fondly later when you have not been able to do them for a long time.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“One’s shadow is private.”
― Fire Dance
― Fire Dance
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
― Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
“you tell me to quiet down cause
my opinions make me less beautiful
but i was not made with a fire in my belly
so i could be put out”
― Milk and Honey
my opinions make me less beautiful
but i was not made with a fire in my belly
so i could be put out”
― Milk and Honey
“Millions are impressed by the victories of power and take it for the sign of strength. To be sure, power over people is an expression of superior strength in a purely material sense. If I have the power over another person to kill him, I am "stronger" than he is. But in a psychological sense, the lust for power is not rooted in strength but in weakness. It is the expression of inability of the individual self to stand alone and live. It is the desperate attempt to gain secondary strength where genuine strength is lacking.”
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