"There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it."

-- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

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“My life is pretty much an open book.”
“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it â€” and the delight is the sense of the sacred.”
“A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.”
“Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?”
“I recommend Doug Sweeney's recent book [Jonathan] Edwards the Exegete (Oxford University Press, 2015), which is a terrific treatment of the way in which Edwards was steeped in the Bible, so that it shaped the whole of his thinking.”
“I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”
“Once you admit a lie or a slander into your ears, you can never totally rid yourself of its effects.”

Source : Rabbi Daniel Lapin (2009). “Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons
“Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.”

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