Ozair Ismail

est nulla via invia virtuti

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Eschew surplusage

- Twain

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MacNeice:

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Auden:

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@bgurley Bill, would love to have you come over to Stanford GSB for a fireside chat about the book! Your talk back in 2019 had a big impact on me.

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Hazlitt:

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Auferre, trucidare, rapere falsis nominibus imperium; atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.

- Tacitus

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The wiser madmen did for virtue toil:
 A thorny, or at best a barren soil:
 In pleasure some their glutton souls would steep;
 But found their line too short, the well too deep;
 And leaky vessels which no bliss could keep.
 Thus anxious thoughts in endless circles roll

- Dryden

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For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

- Eliot

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It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement.

- Shigeo Shingo

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Beowulf:

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People will endure their tyrants for years, but they tear their deliverers to pieces if a millennium is not created immediately.

- Wilson

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The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own.

- Heraclitus

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"Sir, you drown in shallow water."

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Melville:

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Milton on liberty:

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Spinoza: And in fact they are much mistaken, who suppose that one man can by himself hold the supreme right of a commonwealth…

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@HenryEOliver Henry, I find Edmondson's 'typology of failure' provides some much-needed nuance when discussing failure. The following is from her latest book:

https://t.co/6g4LRbLbmE

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Our hopes ought not to rest on the probability of their making mistakes, but on our own caution and foresight. We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school.

- Archimadus

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@checkwarner @checkwarmer That’s very kind of you, Check. Thank you.