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Will we ever again have the type of pandemics that rapidly kill large percentages of the population? This was a feature of normal human existence until relatively recently, but seems almost like science fiction to imagine today.
*looks around the past three years, nervously*
“We do not call ourselves ‘Native American,’ because our blood and people were here long before this land was called the Americas. We are older than America can ever be and do not know the borders.”
― First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
― First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
“A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.
(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
(DUTCH PROVERB)”
― The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
“Your skills will increase with experience, which is the more fun cousin of practice. Practice involves putting your consciousness in suspended animation. Practicing is not living. But when you build your skills through an ever-changing sequence of experiences, you’re alive.”
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
― How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
“Without commitment, you'll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you'll never finish.”
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“My reason for writing it was the conviction that the economy is too important to leave to the economists.”
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
― Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works—and How It Fails
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