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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.

  • Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world, and there are things you can do to lift the human spirit, things that are easy, things that are free, things that you can do every day. Civility, respect, kindness, character.

  • The pressures are intense, because the rewards for success and the penalty for failure are more and more.

  • Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.

  • Punishment and reward proceed from basically the same psychological model, one that conceives of motivation as nothing more than the manipulation of behavior.

  • The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.

  • The reward is in the doing of it.

  • Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.

  • Where there is no temptation, there is no virtue.

  • Obstinacy alone is not a virtue.

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