"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better."
"Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book." - Joseph Brodsky
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want."
A desperate gamble
and Un-Maketh Him, Too
The Scotsman, his paper money, and his stories brought France much prosperity, for a time
"One word of truth shall outweigh the whole world." Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“He combines business skill and philanthropic aptitude to a higher degree than any other man I have ever known.”
"The reason I'm here," he finished his story, "is that the Americans didn't run out of tanks.”
"The first rule of a happy life is low expectations. That’s one you can easily arrange. If you have unrealistic expectations, you’re going to be miserable all your life."
"The purpose of this paper is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing it."
"The practice is not the means to the output. The practice is the output because the practice is all we can control."
