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Every year between early March and late April, about 2,000 hikers set off from Springer, most of them intending to go all the way to Katahdin. No more than 10 percent actually make it. Half don’t make it past central Virginia, less than a
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“The trick, I suppose, is to find someone with a touch of the pathology you require, but not so much that it will destroy you. But,”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“traditional business strategy too often does not bother to create a story or narrative about its actions for its employees and the world to gather around. For the strategy to become reality, people need to see themselves in the story and then take action to make the story happen.”
― Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
― Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change
“She tends to think the sanest policy is a sort of spiritual triage, saving your efforts for those who are likely to make it with a little immediate aid—a small loan, a job recommendation, a couch to crash on for a week or two—and dispassionately ignoring the moribund. But what do you do if you don’t have the option to walk away, to hang up or hit IGNORE, because you’re bound to someone by obligation or love? What”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“At such times we are certainly not at our best but we are undeniably at our most human—utterly vulnerable, naked and laid open, a mess. Whenever”
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
― We Learn Nothing: Essays and Cartoons
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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Byron’s 2025 Year in Books
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100 friends
302 books
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459 books
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1,118 books
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521 books
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289 books
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55 books
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121 books
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