"There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work."

-- Joseph de Maistre

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“You want to change your life? Control the only thing you can control: the meaning you give something.”
“Information about money has become almost as important as money itself.”

Source : Walter B. Wriston (2007). “Bits, Bytes, and Balance Sheets: The New Economic Rules of Engagement in a Wireless World”, Hoover Institution Press
“The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.”
“I'm a car guy! I have a Ford Escape with Ecoboost for most days. On other days I love to drive my 356A, my early 911, or my '72 Dino GT. It all depends on my mood, what road, how far, and who's with me.”

Source : Source: inhabitat.com
“See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.”
“I think all of my writing life led up to the writing of 'The Train Driver' because it deals with my own inherited blindness and guilt and all of what being a white South African in South Africa during those apartheid years meant.”
“The true secret to seeking the unknown is in the looking, not the finding. The journey is what matters.”

Source : Josh Gates (2011). “Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter”, p.41, Simon and Schuster
“Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us.”

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