The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
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 Elon Musk
It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree -- make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
I'm not trying to be anyone's savior. I just try to think about the future and not be sad
You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.
I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other...
I could go and buy one of the islands in the Bahamas and turn it into my personal fiefdom, but I am much more interested in trying to build andcreate a new company.
