The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That
keeps me on my toes.
My wife isn't married to me forever; she's married to me for good. That
keeps me on my toes.
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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but read more
If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially
constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence
developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will
stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.
