Systemic processes tend to reward people for making decisions that turn out to be right–creating great resentment among the anointed, who feel themselves entitled to rewards for being articulate, politically active, and morally fervent.
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Alain De Botton
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
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Sophie Kinsella
More Quotes By Thomas Sowell
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.
