The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.
I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching, but also without attempting to play God.
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