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The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a read more
The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and the rest of creation. This mythology of human superiority justifies their doing whatever they please with the world, just the way Hitler’s mythology of Aryan superiority justified his doing whatever he pleased with Europe. But in the end this mythology is not deeply satisfying. The Takers are a profoundly lonely people. The world for them is enemy territory, and they live in it like an army of occupation, alienated and isolated by their extraordinary specialness.
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
Never let the other fellow set the agenda.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had read more
We should be lenient in our judgment, because often the mistakes of others would have been ours had we had the opportunity to make them.
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of read more
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, read more
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
Whoever envies another confesses his superiority
