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In the strange heat all litigation brings to bear on things, the very process of litigation fosters the most profound misunderstandings in the world. ↗


— Renata Adler


#brings #fosters #heat #litigation #misunderstandings

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗


— John Millington Synge


#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

The average human being is actually quite bad at predicting what he or she should do in order to be happier, and this inability to predict keeps people from, well, being happier. In fact, psychologist Daniel Gilbert has made a career out of demonstrating that human beings are downright awful at predicting their own likes and dislikes. For example, most research subjects strongly believe that another $30,000 a year in income would make them much happier. And they feel equally strongly that adding a 30-minute walk to their daily routine would be of trivial import. And yet Dr. Gilbert’s research suggests that the added income is far less likely to produce an increase in happiness than the addition of a regular walk. ↗


— Kerry Patterson


#money #walking #change

No company should depend on one person no matter how that person is smart or genius, whether it's Apple or News Corp, or Citibank or any other company in the world. ↗


— Al-Waleed bin Talal


#apple #citibank #company #corp #depend

The only source of knowledge is experience. ↗


— Albert Einstein


#knowledge #only #source

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all. ↗


— Gay Talese


#impact #might #news #well

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud. ↗


— Oliver Tambo


#africa #corner #derive #discovery #globe

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of. ↗


— Amy Tan


#both #care #concert #concert pianist #day

My mom was sitting at the kitchen table. She’d set her coffee down, making a noise that made me look her way. I’d begun to notice her less and less often, like her colors were fading and blending in with walls. She was shrinking. Or maybe her sphere of influence in the family was shrinking. My dad glanced at her, too, and then wrote something on a napkin. He slid it across the counter to me—Don’t worry. Come home in one piece. Have fun and act like a sixteen-year-old for a change. ↗


— Laura Anderson Kurk


#family #glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #love

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax. ↗


— Albert Einstein


#hardest #income #income tax #tax #the hardest thing






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