— Socrates
The usual question in conversations like this one: Why is our politics so embittered? Mr. Will begins with what I would term a more proximate answer …
— George Will interview in WSJ “ There was a qualitative change when Newt Gingrich became leader of the Republicans,” he says. I am skeptical of this interpretation, if only because it’s asserted so often by precisely the people—liberal journalists and academics—one would expect to offer it. He acknowledges the argument can be overdone but
The true investor will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies
— Benjamin Graham
I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them
—Andy Bernard
Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a perfectly disastrous way to go through life. If you just take the attitude that however bad it is in anyway, it’s always your fault and you just fix it as best you can – the so-called ‘iron prescription’ – I think that really works
— Charlie Munger
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation
— Rainer Maria Rilke