"Discern the vital few from the trivial Many."

-- Greg McKeown

“Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.”
“Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.”

Source : Clay Shirky (2009). “Here Comes Everybody: How Change Happens when People Come Together”, p.19, Penguin UK
“We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”
“All my businesses are scrupulously legal. Not because I have any moral problems with crime. It just makes my life easier to obey the law. Crime is for poor people; you don't need to rob the bank if you own it.”

Source : Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.23, Penguin
“Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.”
“The love of power and the power to attract love were not easy to reconcile.”

Source : Robert K. Massie (2011). “Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman”, p.449, Random House
“When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.”
“My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.”

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