“Problems only exist for those who don’t look for solutions.”
—Simon Sinek.
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G K Chesterton: Three characters
“In every romance there must be the three characters: there must be the Princess, who is a thing to be loved; there must be the Dragon, who is a thing to be fought; and there must be St. George, who is a thing that both loves and fights.”
—G. K. Chesterton.
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C S Lewis: Doctrines
“Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God.”
—C S Lewis.
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Robert Penn Warren: Light by which we may see
“In the end, the poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see—and what we see is life.”
—Robert Penn Warren, novelist and poet (24 Apr 1905-1989).
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Warren Buffett: Inflation
“Inflation destroys value, but it destroys it very unequally. The best business to have during inflation is one that retains its earning power in real dollars without commensurate investment to, in effect, fund the inflation-produced nominal growth. The worst kind of business is where you have to keep putting more and more money into a lousy business. In effect, the airlines have been hurt by inflation over the last 40 years, because now they have to put a whole lot of money in a lousy investment, which is a plane, compared to 30 or 40 years ago. And they have to stay in the game. They have to keep buying new planes. And the new planes cost far more now, and the returns continue to be inadequate. So the best protection is a very good business that does not require big capital investment… Inflation is always a factor in calculating the kind of investment, the kind of business, that we want to buy. But it isn’t like it crowds out all other factors. I mean, it’s always been with us. We’ll think about it always.” —Warren Buffett.
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Sue Grafton: Ghosts
“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re present among us because we won’t let go of them.”
—Sue Grafton.
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Marcus Aurelius: Meditate
“Meditate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other—for one thing follows after another according to their tension of movement, their sympathetic stirrings, and the unity of all substance.”
—Marcus Aurelius.
