| #c209 | It is quite true that there is a large element of ancestor… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c210 | It is rather, as Schiller called the worship of the gods of… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c211 | The Kami are high, swift, good, rich, living, but not… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c212 | Not only human beings, but birds, beasts, plants and trees,… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c213 | They are very feebly characterised. Indeed, most of them… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c214 | There is a constant depletion in their ranks by the mere… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c215 | Yet she is not what we should call a Supreme Deity. She is… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c216 | It is kept in a bag of brocade which is never opened or… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c217 | They have no 'cure of souls,' and their duties are confined… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c218 | Miya meant equally shrine and palace. Matsuri, a Shinto… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c219 | Shinto prayers are for material blessings only. | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c220 | It is the crime of taking away human life which is… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c221 | Shintoists do not deny this feature of their religion, but… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c222 | They discovered that whether Nature-gods or Man-gods they… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c223 | Without a code of morals, or an efficient ecclesiastical… | Shinto: The Ancient Religion of Japan | Nonfiction |
| #c201 | Betimes in the morning say to thyself, This day I shalt… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c202 | At what time soever thou wilt, it is in thy power to retire… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c203 | In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise,… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c204 | Such as thy thoughts and ordinary cogitations are, such… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c205 | The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them. | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c206 | This is the carcass of a fish; this of a bird; and this of… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c207 | So may every reasonable creature, what crosses and… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c208 | there is nobody that can hinder thee, but that thou mayest… | Meditations | Nonfiction |
| #c510 | "Reality + Dreams + Humor = Wisdom" — Lin's calculus.… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c511 | "Human dignity must be associated with the idea of a scamp… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c512 | "Any good practical philosophy must start out with the… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c513 | "Every funeral procession carries a banner upon which are… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c514 | "Philosophy not only begins with the individual, but also… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c515 | "We should lead a decent human life simply because we are… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c516 | "All human happiness is biological happiness... all human… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c517 | "Leisure in time is like unoccupied floor space in a room."… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c518 | "The aim of education or culture is merely the development… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c519 | "The logical man is always self-righteous and therefore… | The Importance of Living | Nonfiction |
| #c198 | Their boat, like all successful boats, was a form of benign… | A Marriage at Sea | Nonfiction |
| #c199 | Maurice reminded her that the Pacific Ocean was not like… | A Marriage at Sea | Nonfiction |
| #c200 | Seeing the fishing boat was a fleeting shock, like noticing… | A Marriage at Sea | Nonfiction |
| #c193 | With a monthly magazine, you have ten days to two weeks… | When the Going Was Good | Nonfiction |
| #c194 | We couldn't afford to wait until the magazine hit the… | When the Going Was Good | Nonfiction |
| #c195 | They print your magazine, and then you pay them once you've… | When the Going Was Good | Nonfiction |
| #c196 | Their new magazine was designed as a weekly that would sum… | When the Going Was Good | Nonfiction |
| #c197 | When the magazine was in the long, tragic process of… | When the Going Was Good | Nonfiction |
| #c188 | Blush, hair tonics, shampoos, and baby powders never needed… | No More Tears | Nonfiction |
| #c189 | One of the most common talc contaminants is chrysotile… | No More Tears | Nonfiction |
| #c190 | For example, I found that J & J was the only major… | No More Tears | Nonfiction |
| #c191 | In dozens of interviews, sales reps said that their… | No More Tears | Nonfiction |
| #c192 | The workers drilled through quartz, creating clouds of… | No More Tears | Nonfiction |
| #c183 | During moments of high trauma, people sometimes enter a… | London Falling | Nonfiction |
| #c184 | Because an abused child will always love his predator.” He… | London Falling | Nonfiction |
| #c185 | In October 1986, Margaret Thatcher deregulated the banking… | London Falling | Nonfiction |
| #c186 | But in practice he always managed to sneak back in, because… | London Falling | Nonfiction |
| #c187 | He appeared to have deleted all his messages with Verinder… | London Falling | Nonfiction |
| #c178 | The Gestapo wanted all of them: that way this dawn raid… | The Traitors Circle | Nonfiction |
| #c179 | She inveigled her way inside Gestapo headquarters and,… | The Traitors Circle | Nonfiction |
| #c180 | We know of the French resistance and of underground… | The Traitors Circle | Nonfiction |
| #c181 | Even though he had been arrested frequently by the Gestapo… | The Traitors Circle | Nonfiction |
| #c182 | If Hitler did as they feared, their plan would see a group… | The Traitors Circle | Nonfiction |
| #c173 | How many of those people are poor and Black and eager to… | Bad Law | Nonfiction |
| #c174 | Did you notice that in Florida (as in most other Stand Your… | Bad Law | Nonfiction |
| #c175 | There is truth in that, of course, but what the market… | Bad Law | Nonfiction |
| #c176 | Just as society seeks to shame women who get abortions, so… | Bad Law | Nonfiction |
| #c177 | Zárate was out of status at the time of the shooting, but… | Bad Law | Nonfiction |
| #c164 | The gradual development of the equality of conditions is… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c165 | The more I advanced in the study of American society, the… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c166 | In democratic countries the science of association is the… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c167 | Individualism is a mature and calm feeling, which disposes… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c168 | At the present time the liberty of association is become a… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c169 | Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c170 | It cannot be repeated too often that nothing is more… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c171 | In America I saw the freest and most enlightened men,… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c172 | but that servitude cannot be complete if the press is free:… | Democracy in America | Nonfiction |
| #c149 | The essential ingredients of our propaganda model, or set… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c150 | The elite domination of the media and marginalization of… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c151 | Ben Bagdikian stresses the fact that despite the large… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c152 | In short, the mass media are interested in attracting… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c153 | Barnouw notes that although at that time a great many large… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c154 | The mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c155 | Mark Fishman calls this “the principle of bureaucratic… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c156 | “Flak” refers to negative responses to a media statement or… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c157 | This ideology helps mobilize the populace against an enemy,… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c158 | The mass media never explain why Andrei Sakharov is worthy… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c159 | A propaganda system will consistently portray people abused… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c160 | The victims of Pol Pot, a Communist leader, were worthy,… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c161 | The United States organized what have been called… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c162 | We do not use any kind of “conspiracy” hypothesis to… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c163 | The special importance of propaganda in what Walter… | Manufacturing Consent | Nonfiction |
| #c141 | The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c142 | Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government. | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c143 | But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c144 | clearly it is the intelligent minorities which need to make… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c145 | To reach and persuade the group leaders who dictate the… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c146 | The public relations counsel, then, is the agent who,… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c147 | The great political problem in our modern democracy is how… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c148 | If you can influence the leaders, either with or without… | Propaganda | Nonfiction |
| #c124 | Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c125 | The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c126 | The third rule is: Wherever possible go outside of the… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c127 | The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c128 | The fourth rule carries within it the fifth rule: Ridicule… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c129 | The sixth rule is: A good tactic is one that your people… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c130 | The seventh rule: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c131 | The eighth rule: Keep the pressure on, with different… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c132 | The ninth rule: The threat is usually more terrifying than… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c133 | The tenth rule: The major premise for tactics is the… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c134 | The eleventh rule is: If you push a negative hard and deep… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c135 | The twelfth rule: The price of a successful attack is a… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c136 | The thirteenth rule: Pick the target, freeze it,… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c137 | The man of action views the issue of means and ends in… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c138 | Mankind has been and is divided into three parts: the… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c139 | This is the basic difference between the leader and the… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c140 | I looked blank and replied, “Maybe I am innocent and… | Rules for Radicals | Nonfiction |
| #c116 | The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common,… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c117 | And it ought to be remembered that there is nothing more… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c118 | Those may be called properly used, if of evil it is… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c119 | But, it being my intention to write a thing which shall be… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c120 | It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but,… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c121 | so it is necessary for a prince to know how to make use of… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c122 | Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c123 | For my part I consider that it is better to be adventurous… | The Prince | Nonfiction |
| #c538 | "Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c539 | There is one burning desire shared by every person you'll… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c540 | "The only way on earth to influence other people is to talk… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c541 | The book's six likability techniques are one mechanism… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c542 | "Many people calling for an interview, seeking an audience… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c543 | "Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c544 | "When we are wrong, we may admit it to ourselves; and if we… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c545 | "Get the other person saying 'yes, yes' immediately if you… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c546 | Correction has a delivery protocol: "Begin with praise and… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c547 | "Give a dog a good name" — attribute a virtue to someone… | How to Win Friends and Influence People | Nonfiction |
| #c480 | We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c481 | That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c482 | But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c483 | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c484 | The history of the present King of Great Britain is a… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c485 | In every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c486 | We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c487 | And for the support of this declaration, with a firm… | Declaration of Independence | Nonfiction |
| #c108 | The simplest organic molecule is methane (one carbon atom… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c109 | Morphine has been used as a medicinal molecule for much… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c110 | Every other glucose molecule in the chain is flipped over,… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c111 | There comes a point when the molecule is referred to as a… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c112 | This molecule is known as the onion lachrymatory factor – a… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c113 | Contrast this with β-carotene, the molecule that is… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c114 | Volatile molecules are widespread in the plant kingdom;… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c115 | As an extremely large molecule (and the largest vitamin… | Every Molecule Matters | Nonfiction |
| #c103 | BC refers to the intricate network of neural pathways that… | Brain Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c104 | Here, two important concepts in the network connectivity of… | Brain Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c105 | The network of neurons builds the foundation of the entire… | Brain Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c106 | The entire neuronal network is connected by special… | Brain Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c107 | The DMN is a network of brain regions that is more active… | Brain Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c488 | The Polyvagal Theory begins by recognizing that the vagus… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c489 | Stephen Porges introduced the idea of the “vagal brake”—the… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c490 | A person might react to a safe situation as if it were… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c491 | All five of these nerves work together; if one is… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c492 | The common thread may be a fairly simple one: All of the… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c493 | Porges found that many individuals on the autism spectrum… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c494 | After a short period of time—up to thirty or even sixty… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c495 | From my clinical observations, I believe that it only takes… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c496 | Eighty percent of the fibers of the vagus nerve are… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c497 | Since there is no such thing as a fixed state of balance,… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c498 | Under excessive pressure, the body does not feel safe, and… | Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve | Nonfiction |
| #c528 | Your mind has two workers with opposite job descriptions.… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c529 | Murphy's one law: "The law of your mind is the law of… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c530 | The subconscious is non-selective soil: it grows weeds as… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c531 | The conscious mind's real job is not achieving — it is… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c532 | Murphy's thesis of the healing chapters: Mesmer's magnets,… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c533 | The subconscious is most impressionable in the drowsy… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c534 | Don't pray for the future; rehearse the finished end as… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c535 | Effort defeats itself. Coué's law, which Murphy adopts… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c536 | "Wealth is simply a subconscious conviction on the part of… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c537 | Habit is not character — it is the subconscious executing… | The Power of Your Subconscious Mind | Nonfiction |
| #c98 | The qubit can then optionally be measured, in which case… | Quantum Computing | Nonfiction |
| #c99 | If a measurement is not taken, the qubit will be in a… | Quantum Computing | Nonfiction |
| #c100 | Together, postulates 1 and 4 state that an n-qubit quantum… | Quantum Computing | Nonfiction |
| #c101 | As a single-qubit unitary maps a single-qubit state to… | Quantum Computing | Nonfiction |
| #c102 | Whereas if Alice has measured her qubit, then Bob's qubit… | Quantum Computing | Nonfiction |
| #c90 | Reverse engineering is a powerful technique, process,… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c91 | It is, quite simply, mechanical dissection or "teardown" of… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c92 | If, on the other hand, something survives creation,… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c93 | Based on this, product teardown is the process of taking… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c94 | The design is a creation with a purpose, with the purpose… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c95 | A new material, a new method-of-manufacture, -construction,… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c96 | Variant design (or modification) involves varying the… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c97 | In a similar vein, outcomes are usually more important than… | Reverse Engineering | Nonfiction |
| #c85 | Delays resulting from the communication mode among neurons… | Analysis and Design of Delayed Neural Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c86 | Since delay is inevitable, it is necessary to model NNs by… | Analysis and Design of Delayed Neural Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c87 | In the process of communication among neurons, the latency… | Analysis and Design of Delayed Neural Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c88 | In addition, a representative delay that is fundamentally… | Analysis and Design of Delayed Neural Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c89 | However, it is desired that the stability of NNs will not… | Analysis and Design of Delayed Neural Networks | Nonfiction |
| #c80 | This convergence has given birth to Tiny Machine Learning… | Tiny Machine Learning QuickStart | Nonfiction |
| #c81 | Unlike cloud-based machine learning systems with virtually… | Tiny Machine Learning QuickStart | Nonfiction |
| #c82 | Due to size, efficiency, power, and cost constraints,… | Tiny Machine Learning QuickStart | Nonfiction |
| #c83 | We can exploit this asymmetry by training our models on… | Tiny Machine Learning QuickStart | Nonfiction |
| #c84 | Historically, the power of machine learning algorithms has… | Tiny Machine Learning QuickStart | Nonfiction |
| #c520 | The original 8051 is an 8-bit processor with 128 bytes of… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c521 | Internal RAM is stratified by function: 00H-1FH holds four… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c522 | The 8051 offers five addressing modes — immediate,… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c523 | Some instructions read the external pin state, but… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c524 | One machine cycle is 12 oscillator periods (1.085 us at… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c525 | In the 8-bit asynchronous mode, every byte is framed with… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c526 | Six interrupts live at fixed ROM addresses — Reset 0000H,… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c527 | The 8051 talks to peripherals like memory: the 74LS138… | 8051 Microcontroller Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c66 | In other words, things get weird in the second half of the… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c67 | U.S. businesses entered the second half of the chessboard… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c68 | Bounty is the increase in volume, variety, and quality and… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c69 | Spread, however, is not so great; it’s ever-bigger… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c70 | Instead, the main driver is exponential, digital, and… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c71 | While these two key economic statistics tracked each other… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c72 | “We know more than we can tell.” | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c73 | Weak human + machine + better process was superior to a… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c74 | people still have a great deal to offer the game of chess… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c75 | While the marginal costs of digital goods do not quite… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c76 | replacing a paid newspaper with an equivalent free news… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c77 | Possibilities do not merely add up; they multiply. | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c78 | Many of them have proposed the same simple solution: give… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c79 | Technology creates possibilities and potential, but… | The Second Machine Age | Nonfiction |
| #c50 | We will try to convince you that because of recent… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c51 | They found 136 such studies, covering everything from… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c52 | There is no controversy in social science that shows such a… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c53 | In a test involving more than 82,000 forecasts, Tetlock… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c54 | In 2006, Avinash Kaushik and Ronny Kohavi, two data… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c55 | Machine learning—the art and science of building software… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c56 | Machine learning systems (and all other forms of AI) still… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c57 | Drivers of the robotic Cambrian Explosion include data,… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c58 | The marginal cost of an additional digital copy is (almost)… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c59 | A platform can be described as a digital environment… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c60 | Networked goods become more valuable as more people use… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c61 | Two products are complements if a drop in the price of one… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c62 | The crowd is, in many ways, the opposite of the core: it’s… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c63 | Over and over again, the recognized experts of the core see… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c64 | Companies and other nonmarket organizations are needed to… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c65 | So we should ask not “What will technology do to us?” but… | Machine, Platform, Crowd | Nonfiction |
| #c499 | Progress comes in two forms. Horizontal progress (1 to n)… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c500 | Ask: "What important truth do very few people agree with… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c501 | The dot-com crash taught Silicon Valley four dogmas: make… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c502 | Economists mythologize competition, but under perfect… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c503 | Thiel's two-axis framework: definite vs. indefinite… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c504 | Venture returns don't follow a normal distribution — they… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c505 | Every great business is built around a secret hidden from… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c506 | Culture isn't perks or policies — it's what a team on a… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c507 | Distribution is the hidden half of every business.… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c508 | Distribution follows a power law of its own: one method… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c509 | Humans and computers are categorically different — people… | Zero to One | Nonfiction |
| #c33 | Western Civilization, on the contrary, did not pass from… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c34 | (a) it is a period of declining rate of expansion; (b) it… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c35 | In time, this system of commercial capitalism became… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c36 | The commercial capitalist sought profits from the exchange… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c37 | The outbreak of war in 1914 showed these financial… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c38 | Wars, as events have proved since, are not fought with gold… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c39 | a. Taxation gives no inflation and no debt. b. Fiat money… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c40 | the powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c41 | Each central bank, in the hands of men like Montagu Norman… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c42 | The B.I.S. as a private institution was owned by the seven… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c43 | These purposes centered on his desire to federate the… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c44 | This association was formally established on February 5,… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c45 | Over the past two centuries, there have been five such… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c46 | The time covered by this book seems to this historian to… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c47 | The hope of the twentieth century rests on its recognition… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c48 | the nineteenth century was, however hopeful in its general… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c49 | There does exist, and has existed for a generation, an… | Tragedy and Hope | Nonfiction |
| #c28 | A specific amount of grain corresponded to something else,… | The History of Money | Nonfiction |
| #c29 | The modern word “salary” comes from this idea of being paid… | The History of Money | Nonfiction |
| #c30 | Can you imagine how much trust in money there must be in a… | The History of Money | Nonfiction |
| #c31 | Just as the expansion of empire took time, the… | The History of Money | Nonfiction |
| #c32 | You must be some almighty class of scoundrel if Napoleon… | The History of Money | Nonfiction |
| #c13 | Prediction and agency should not be conflated. A credit… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c14 | The technically and institutionally mature objective is… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c15 | This principle prevents a common category error. A model… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c16 | Production systems should separate language generation from… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c17 | Agents optimized independently can learn strategies that… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c18 | The central purpose of governance is not to prevent the use… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c19 | A valid evaluation must freeze not only the price history… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c20 | Large Language Models in finance are best understood as… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c21 | The architecture has four layers, illustrated in Figure… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c22 | a financial fine-tuning experiment is not defined by a… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c23 | Two things distinguish it from a generic one, and both are… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c24 | MCP is an interoperability protocol, not a complete… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c25 | a sentence that reaches the memo without one is not a… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c26 | Capturing all of these dimensions in a single scalar reward… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c27 | For generative systems, quality is vector-valued. A… | Large Language Models in Finance | Nonfiction |
| #c1 | There is a fundamental difference between a strategy and a… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c2 | The edge in trading doesn’t come from any one of these… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c3 | A November 2024 study shed light on this trend, analyzing… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c4 | The consistency of your trading hours has a direct impact… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c5 | Recognizing when not to trade is as valuable as knowing… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c6 | Bear Bull Traders calls your edge in the markets your… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c7 | If you cannot put the trade opportunity into any of your… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c8 | This highlights a vital aspect of trading: success is not… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c9 | A 50% loss means you will need to double your account… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c10 | This calculation demonstrates why protecting your capital… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c11 | So, from here on in, when I talk about trading psychology,… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c12 | Prioritize the successful execution of your TradeBooks… | TradeBook: How to Build a Complete Trading System (Stock Market Trading and Investing) | Nonfiction |
| #c428 | All violence as a means is either law-making or… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c429 | Lawmaking is power making, and, to that extent, an… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c430 | The police intervene "for security reasons" in countless… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c431 | If mythical violence is lawmaking, divine violence is… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c432 | The interest of the law in a monopoly of violence vis-a-vis… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c433 | "Thou shalt not kill" is not a criterion for judgement. It… | Critique of Violence | Nonfiction |
| #c464 | The XY problem is the trap where someone asks for help with… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c465 | XYEval takes existing AI tests and appends a… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c466 | Five leading AI models were tested across six standard AI… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c467 | On one test suite, the researchers added a simulated user… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c468 | Reading the agents' step-by-step records, the researchers… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c469 | A generic built-in instruction warning about the XY problem… | XYEval: Agents Say Yes to Bad Advice | Nonfiction |
| #c470 | All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c471 | Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c472 | If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c473 | Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c474 | There is no instance of a country having benefited from… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c475 | Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c476 | Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c477 | There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c478 | Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c479 | No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify… | The Art of War | Nonfiction |
| #c640 | A paradigm is not a big idea or a theory; it's a shared… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c641 | The bulk of work in any mature field is not testing the… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c642 | A contradiction does not immediately overturn a framework.… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c643 | A framework doesn't collapse cleanly — it enters 'crisis,'… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c644 | The switch from one framework to another is not additive —… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c645 | Two frameworks can't be fully judged against each other by… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c646 | After you adopt a new framework, the SAME inputs read… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c647 | After a framework wins, the community rewrites its own… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c648 | A mature framework is conservative BY DESIGN: it 'often… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c649 | 'Progress' is measured by the framework's own internal… | The Structure of Scientific Revolutions | Nonfiction |
| #c650 | A bullshit job is defined not by whether it's useful to the… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c651 | A flunky job exists 'only or primarily to make someone else… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c652 | A goon is someone whose job 'has an aggressive element,… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c653 | A duct taper is an employee 'whose job exists only because… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c654 | A box ticker exists 'only or primarily to allow an… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c655 | Taskmasters split into two types. Type 1: 'those whose role… | Bullshit Jobs | Nonfiction |
| #c656 | Musashi: 'Speed is not part of the true Way of Strategy...… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c657 | 'What is called the spirit of the void is where there is… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c658 | 'Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c659 | Musashi's first of nine precepts is 'Do not think… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c660 | 'Today is victory over yourself of yesterday; tomorrow is… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c661 | 'To become the enemy means to think yourself in the enemy's… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c662 | 'There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c663 | 'The gaze should be large and broad. This is the twofold… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c664 | 'I dislike fixedness in both long swords and hands.… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c665 | It is difficult to move strong things by pushing directly,… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c666 | Musashi's ninth precept: 'Do nothing which is of no use.'… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c667 | 'The mountain-sea spirit means that it is bad to repeat the… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c668 | 'The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million… | The Book of Five Rings | Nonfiction |
| #c669 | Presence is not laser-focus on what you expect; it's a… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c670 | The tell of false attention is presupposition. If your… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c671 | Complete alertness is the baseline of being alive, not a… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c672 | Alertness is not a technique; it's the default condition of… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c673 | Distinguish inertial thinking from alert thought. Inertial… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c674 | To act effectively on anything — a target, a market, an… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c675 | Total absorption does not require the object to be visible.… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c676 | The deepest focus is a 'vacation from yourself.' Total… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c677 | Life is not something you have; it's something you must do,… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c678 | The height of activity is not doing, but dedicating… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c679 | Your life arrives empty and already numbered; the essence… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c680 | Real recreation is not passive relaxation — it's the height… | Meditations on Hunting | Nonfiction |
| #c681 | How to tell ambition from heroism: trace it to its engine.… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c682 | How to tell what a culture is really for: look past its… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c683 | How to tell status-signaling from real need: it's heroic… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c684 | How to tell a status struggle from ordinary competition:… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c685 | How to tell a rigid personality from a strong one: rigidity… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c686 | How to tell body-disgust from aesthetic taste: it's… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c687 | How to tell romantic love from a religion: look at what the… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c688 | How to tell why a deified relationship will turn to… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c689 | How to tell sexual compulsion from desire: it's a flight… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c690 | How to tell genuine conviction from leader-worship: it's… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c691 | How to tell real independence from the performance of it:… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c692 | How to tell self-making from self-development: self-making… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c693 | How to tell neurotic behavior from ordinary coping: it's an… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c694 | How to tell what mental illness reveals about everyone… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c695 | How to tell depression from its surface causes: underneath… | The Denial of Death | Nonfiction |
| #c696 | Musk's oft-repeated mantra, the five-step 'algorithm': 1.… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c697 | Musk developed what he called an "idiot index," which… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c698 | When SpaceX decided to catch the Starship booster with the… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c699 | Musk took an iterative approach to design. Rockets and… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c700 | All requirements should be treated as recommendations, he… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c701 | Grimes on Musk's dark state: "Demon mode is when he goes… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c702 | When hiring, look for people with the right attitude.… | Elon Musk | Nonfiction |
| #c718 | This drive maximizes interestingness, the first derivative… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c719 | I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c720 | Curiosity is the desire to create or discover more… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c721 | Neither the arbitrary nor the fully predictable is truly… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c722 | What’s beautiful is not necessarily interesting. A… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c723 | There is one thing that is involved in all actions and… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c724 | the data is holy as it is the only basis of all that can be… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c725 | An unusually large compression breakthrough deserves the… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c726 | one should not focus on the errors of the predictor, but on… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c727 | It will get bored by things that already are subjectively… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c728 | scientists are very much like artists. They actively select… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c729 | comedians also tend to combine well-known concepts in a… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c730 | What they see every day in the mirror will influence their… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c731 | the curiosity drive is such a general and generally useful… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c732 | He should try a song that is unfamiliar enough to contain… | Driven by Compression Progress | Nonfiction |
| #c858 | Before you chase "better," name what you are giving up to… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c859 | When you plan a system, a launch, or a budget, design for… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c860 | Do the crude version first, the one that just works, then… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c861 | Before you improve a process, check the structure… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c862 | If you want the better outcome in a two-sided arrangement,… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c863 | When comparing options, first subtract the cost you will… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c864 | When you optimize, check the whole board, not just the… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c865 | When you have to check many things against many things, use… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c866 | When a small piece of the picture changes, do not rebuild… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c867 | When something fails partway through, do not restart from… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c868 | Before you inspect something fully, check the single most… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c869 | When exploring options, know which you need: depth (commit… | Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know | Nonfiction |
| #c880 | The spirit becomes camel, then lion, then child. The camel… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c881 | Zarathustra warns of “the most despicable man, who can no… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c882 | At the gateway called “This Moment,” Zarathustra asks: must… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c883 | “Wherever I found a living thing, there found I Will to… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c884 | The old saint in the forest “hath not yet heard of it, that… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c885 | “Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c886 | Zarathustra descends from ten years on the mountain with… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c887 | “The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c888 | “What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c889 | “I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give… | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | Nonfiction |
| #c895 | Intelligence and final goals are independent variables. Any… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c896 | Whatever a superintelligent agent's final goal, it will… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c897 | A superintelligence tasked with maximizing paperclip… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c898 | Once a machine reaches roughly human-level general… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c899 | Takeoff speed is set by two forces: optimization power (how… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c900 | A decisive strategic advantage is a level of technological… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c901 | Superintelligence is not one power but a bundle: amplifying… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c902 | How do you keep a superintelligent agent's behavior within… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c903 | Four castes of AI by scope: oracles answer questions but… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c904 | A sufficiently smart agent with a hidden agenda will behave… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c905 | Specify the goal slightly wrong and a superintelligence… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c906 | The target for AI values should not be what humans want now… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c907 | With ordinary technologies we learn from accidents - planes… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c908 | One path to superintelligence skips inventing minds from… | Superintelligence | Nonfiction |
| #c909 | To watch brain cells work, scientists fill them with tiny… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c910 | Don't ask whether the sensor is changing the cell. If you… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c911 | Sensors that hold calcium loosely change the signal less.… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c912 | Before trusting the picture, estimate how much sensor is… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c913 | Real calcium signals fade fast, in a fraction of a second.… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c914 | A cell that glows brighter may look calmer, not busier,… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c915 | In the lab, slowing every signal down can blur their… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c916 | Polls shape the opinions they measure. Workers chase… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c917 | What am I watching that my watching is changing, and what… | An Inconvenient Truth: Calcium Sensors Are Calcium Buffers | Nonfiction |
| #c918 | Il faut qu'il n'exige pas le secret, et qu'il puisse sans… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c919 | Une fois qu'un cryptogramme intercepté a pu être déchiffré,… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c920 | J'entends par secret, non la clef proprement dite, mais ce… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c921 | Ce n'était pas un des moindres services à rendre à la… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c922 | Le déchiffrement d'un cryptogramme dont on n'a pas la clef… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c923 | Dans tout texte chiffré, deux polygrammes semblables sont… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c924 | La valeur d'un chiffre se mesure aux garanties qu'il offre… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c925 | Dans les cas un peu difficiles ce sont généralement les… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c926 | Du moment que les alphabets sont disposés en nombre carré,… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c927 | Quelle que soit la disposition adoptée des alphabets, les… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c928 | Un chiffre n'est bon qu'autant qu'il reste indéchiffrable… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c929 | Ce ne sera que lorsque nos officiers auront étudié les… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c930 | Tous ces appareils ne sont en réalité autre chose qu'un… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c931 | Ce n'est pas la possibilité de se servir d'un grand nombre… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c932 | Qu'un seul chiffre dans un groupe soit fautif, que le… | La Cryptographie militaire | Nonfiction |
| #c955 | A stock is the running total of everything that ever flowed… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c956 | Don't listen to what a system says its purpose is. Watch… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c957 | A population, a bank account, and a warehouse can all… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c958 | Nobody can see resilience until it's gone, so it gets… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c959 | When each part wins locally, the whole can still lose.… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c960 | When everyone pushes in different directions, the system… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c961 | A quick fix for a symptom atrophies the system's own… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c962 | Set a metric and the system will hit it perfectly while… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c963 | Almost all attention goes to parameters, subsidies, tax… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c964 | Don't watch the players to find what's broken. Watch the… | Thinking in Systems | Nonfiction |
| #c986 | On April 10, 1953, Dulles warned a Princeton alumni… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c987 | Maheu and Associates: “a private detective firm staffed by… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c988 | Allen Dulles to the press, on the eve of his campaign:… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c989 | After reading the Vrba-Wetzler report on Auschwitz, Dulles… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c990 | Talbot’s rule for the CIA’s hierarchy: Hunt, Harvey,… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c991 | Dulles ran his Bern station in the open: no bodyguard, no… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c992 | In Hal Vaughan’s account, Dulles assured Himmler’s envoy… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c993 | Breckinridge Long’s 1940 memo ordered consuls to “put every… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c994 | By Dulles’s own account, he let Gaevernitz carry out the… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c995 | Arrested by American Nazi-hunters, Dollmann handed over a… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c996 | Dulles “buried it in the State Department bureaucracy under… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c997 | Facing exposure over Nazi ties, the Dulles circle seized… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c998 | The Korean “brainwashing” panic, “the seedbed of so much… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c999 | After Galíndez was kidnapped in Manhattan, “the CIA had… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1000 | Dulles cultivated Kennedy for years before the presidency,… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1001 | Harriman’s advice, via Marshall: “when you change a policy,… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1002 | Bobby Kennedy wrote: “The President believed he was… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1003 | Asked on camera whether the CIA operated on a higher moral… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1004 | Angleton’s doctrine: “It was the paper record—the… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1005 | Dulles on briefing Congress: members stopped him, saying… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1006 | McCloy described the Warren Commission’s job as “lay the… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1007 | Shown Frame 313 of the Zapruder film, Schlesinger “visibly… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1008 | The CIA’s 1967 guidance for handling Warren Report critics:… | The Devil's Chessboard | Nonfiction |
| #c1138 | "you are prepared to rely on what you do not know? Do you… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1139 | "never put off the collecting of supplies until the day of… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1140 | "They are well aware of the terms Cyaxares has offered for… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1141 | "'He taught me tactics.'" "'And pray what will be the use… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1142 | "these excellent men are, after all, much the same as the… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1143 | "A single man is hard enough to support in idleness, a… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1144 | "Let him propose competitions of every kind and offer… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1145 | "Let a man rouse false expectations often enough, and in… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1146 | "I hold that the ruler should be marked out from other men,… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1147 | "the more I felt persuaded of my own superiority and the… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1148 | "both of you must take your meals sometime; both of you… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1149 | "if you wish your men to follow you, remember that they… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1150 | "I cannot help seeing that within our ranks are men of… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1151 | "half were equipped with stout staves of fennel, and half… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1152 | "He remembered how the captains of ten supervised the… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1153 | "He would go to one of his most intimate friends and bid… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1154 | "There, Croesus, that is treasure number one; and now run… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1155 | "It is little that one man can see or one man hear, and to… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1156 | "it seems to me a grievous error in a ruler to quarrel with… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1157 | "suppose we make it a rule that every one who receives a… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1158 | "he always insisted that the army servants should share and… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1159 | "a man had no right to pray he might win a cavalry charge… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1160 | "where the world believes merit will win no crown and… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1161 | "all that was set before him, after he and his guests had… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1162 | "If you have an officer and he does wrong, do you suffer… | Cyropaedia | Nonfiction |
| #c1013 | "The Soviet Union finally agreed to three inspections. The… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1014 | "Sadat flew to the capital of his enemies, a disputed… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1015 | "Terms negotiated between a major city and its Hispanic… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1016 | "The members of the committee adopted the rule that only… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1017 | "Similarly, the word 'mediator' in Persian suggests… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1018 | "She asks one why he wants the window open: 'To get some… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1019 | "At Camp David, President Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1020 | "In constructing the other side's presently perceived… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1021 | "The Mexicans had a strong interest not only in getting a… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1022 | "In this difference lies the potential for a bargain… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1023 | "India, representing the Third World bloc, proposed an… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1024 | "The solution devised was to agree that a private company… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1025 | "I see. How did you reach that figure?… I understand, but… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1026 | "In one case, a small town negotiated a company with a… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1027 | "The American asked, 'What would happen to Golda Meir if… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1028 | "After thirteen days and some twenty-three drafts, the… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1029 | "'Then you won't mind a contingent agreement. Your client… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1030 | "Each time the British thought they had an agreement, he… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1031 | "But local authorities in Cyprus and Algeria negotiated… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1032 | "The negotiation consultant asked why the second owner was… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1033 | "It is useful to identify one far from perfect agreement… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1034 | "TURNBULL: If you and I could reach agreement now, Paul and… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1035 | "At a coal mine where one of the authors was recently… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1036 | "That was the fifth time in two weeks he sent me out of our… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1037 | "The Council's resolutions clearly stated that Iraq must… | Getting to Yes | Nonfiction |
| #c1163 | "He began by breaking three dozen new earthen pots, the… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1164 | "he noticed that a certain earth containing silica, which… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1165 | "He aimed throughout at the highest excellence, declaring… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1166 | "He first studied the art of making the Buckingham or… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1167 | "he found himself almost unconsciously watching his… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1168 | "he saw a tiny spider's net suspended across his path. The… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1169 | "'I have retouched this part—polished that—softened this… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1170 | "'I keep the subject continually before me, and wait till… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1171 | "his father was accustomed to set him up at table to… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1172 | "a pair of Norway rats had taken possession of the whole,… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1173 | "He then called his servant, Joseph, to his help, and… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1174 | "'Method,' said the Reverend Richard Cecil, 'is like… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1175 | "Do instantly whatever is to be done, and take the hours of… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1176 | "West might have been a greater painter, had he not been… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1177 | "John Hunter used to remark that the art of surgery would… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1178 | "At first he was laughed at; but his ceaseless importunity… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1179 | "Benjamin West made his first brushes out of the cat's… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1180 | "'The ifs and the buts,' said he, 'are at present out of… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1181 | "'I make a point,' said he to Mr. Gleig, 'of paying my own… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1182 | "Lord Bacon left behind him many manuscripts entitled… | Self-Help | Nonfiction |
| #c1088 | "How would you cure a horse that is afraid of cars—graze… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1089 | "One way to get air out of a glass is to pour in water."… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1090 | "Have the first few sentences worked out completely so that… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1091 | "To make a word emphatic, deliver it differently from the… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1092 | "'But,' said Mr. Dana, 'if you see a man bite a dog, hurry… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1093 | "If you say, 'My horse is not black,' what color… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1094 | "one of the most important means of developing power in… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1095 | "he may underscore a catch-word heavily, draw a red circle… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1096 | "Others again write and commit a few important parts of the… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1097 | "An anecdote without bearing may be funny but one less… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1098 | "Who else will speak? Do I speak first, last, or where, on… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1099 | "Let ten minutes mean neither nine nor eleven—though better… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1100 | "Your words come with the weight of authority when you can… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1101 | "Most of us are captured by the latest strong attack, and… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1102 | "To warn children that they should not put beans up their… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1103 | "Suggest to a man that it is impossible to change his mind… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1104 | "A gloomy day, in a drab room, sparsely tenanted by… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1105 | "The advocates of the commission-form of government of… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1106 | "Figurative and indirect language has suggestive force,… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1107 | "Patent medicine advertisement usually begins by talking… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1108 | "It is as hard to kindle enthusiasm in a scattered audience… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1109 | "For Brutus is an honorable man, So are they all, all… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1110 | "Let but the commons hear this testament-- Which, pardon… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1111 | "Notice how at the last the pleader sweeps on to the… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1112 | "Ignorance and credulity will remain unchanged unless the… | The Art of Public Speaking | Nonfiction |
| #c1063 | "They will allow a man to help them but not to surpass… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1064 | "All men are idolaters, some of fame, others of… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1065 | "To dissent from others' views is regarded as an insult,… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1066 | "You must pass through the circumference of time before… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1067 | "It lets a purpose appear in order to attract the… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1068 | "He that plays with cards exposed runs a risk of losing the… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1069 | "Thus the only way to drive him from the better course is… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1070 | "His affair seems to be in train when it is really only… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1071 | "it is generally an inducement to profess to supply only… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1072 | "Throw Straws in the Air, to find how things will be… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1073 | "A pleasant manner has here an opportunity for a display of… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1074 | "The wise man would rather see men needing him than… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1075 | "they dissemble their desire so as to attain it. They put… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1076 | "Tepid incredulity acts as an emetic on secrets." "A sly… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1077 | "Surprise them when in a pleasant mood, when a repast of… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1078 | "the same gift which would afterwards be merely a reward is… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1079 | "Every one may be of importance as an enemy if not as a… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1080 | "It is an uncommon piece of shrewdness to change a rival… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1081 | "A resolution declared is never highly thought of; it only… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1082 | "nor complain about it, for malice always aims where… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1083 | "Give way to the first and you must yield to the second,… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1084 | "Some men's No is thought more of than the Yes of others :… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1085 | "The other enters without anxiety ; having lost everything,… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1086 | "Hope is a great falsifier of truth ; let skill guard… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1087 | "generally they are not to be had when sought for, but fall… | The Art of Worldly Wisdom | Nonfiction |
| #c1038 | "I took some of the papers, and, making short hints of the… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1039 | "I was charm'd with it, adopted it, dropt my abrupt… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1040 | "I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1041 | "I took care not only to be in reality industrious and… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1042 | "every member, in his turn, should produce one or more… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1043 | "I therefore put myself as much as I could out of sight,… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1044 | "I rul'd each page with red ink, so as to have seven… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1045 | "like him who, having a garden to weed, does not attempt to… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1046 | "'No,' said the smith, 'turn on, turn on; we shall have it… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1047 | "I consider'd it as a proper vehicle for conveying… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1048 | "Having heard that he had in his library a certain very… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1049 | "by thus clubbing our books to a common library, we should,… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1050 | "they should always render accounts, and make remittances,… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1051 | "I at length refus'd to play any more, unless on this… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1052 | "In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1053 | "every member separately should endeavour to form a… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1054 | "Our articles of agreement oblig'd every member to keep… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1055 | "it shall and may be lawful for the said speaker, and he is… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1056 | "three or four of such as cannot separately spare from the… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1057 | "I concluded to let my papers shift for themselves,… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1058 | "a Quaker friend having kindly informed me that I was… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1059 | "Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it,… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1060 | "This, however, was afterwards of use to me, the impression… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1061 | "As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1062 | "I should have called my book The Art of Virtue, because it… | The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin | Nonfiction |
| #c1113 | "The greater part of the systematic soldiering, however, is… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1114 | "…after a workman has had the price per piece of the work… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1115 | "…since they were paid by the hour, the faster they went… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1116 | "…there are many different ways in common use for doing the… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1117 | "What we are all looking for, however, is the readymade,… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1118 | "Under functional management, the old-fashioned single… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1119 | "…it would be physically impossible for him to work at his… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1120 | "This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1121 | "…when pig iron is being handled (each pig weighing 92… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1122 | "…it was found that a first-class man would do his biggest… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1123 | "…yellow paper showed the man that he had failed to do his… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1124 | "…if the workman fails to do his task, some competent… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1125 | "…when men work in gangs, their individual efficiency falls… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1126 | "Just remember, however, that at any time in the future,… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1127 | "…each bricklayer lowering his body, weighing, say, 150… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1128 | "…when the vote was taken the girls were unanimous that 10… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1129 | "It is necessary in almost all cases, therefore, to take… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1130 | "Every two or three days a lot of balls was especially… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1131 | "…after about an hour and one-half of consecutive work they… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1132 | "Mr. Thompson soon recognized that the quality most needed… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1133 | "…the gain in time made through running the machine… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1134 | "…whenever the new method is found to be markedly superior… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1135 | "The mechanism of management must not be mistaken for its… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1136 | "…only one workman at a time should be dealt with at the… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1137 | "Schmidt, are you a high-priced man?" "He worked when he… | The Principles of Scientific Management | Nonfiction |
| #c1344 | "At this point the business model was pretty simple: if I… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1345 | "How do you sell ads for a newspaper that doesn’t exist? On… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1346 | "I’d sift through all my competitors’ publications in… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1347 | "Barstool is looking to hire writers. We don’t pay at all,… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1348 | "I needed to see that prospective hires were consistent… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1349 | "For months, I had tried to guide, nudge, and suggest what… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1350 | "In twenty years of doing this shit, I’ve learned that it… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1351 | "The other (and more important) thing I learned was that… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1352 | "It was a skeleton structure that we would add only a few… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1353 | "Well, each show was assigned to a different college. So… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1354 | "But one thing was very clear to me: we needed to have the… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1355 | "If you ever have to beg for an investment, if you feel… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1356 | "So the only thing I really did was give them access to our… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1357 | "They were direct, intentional visitors who knew where they… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1358 | "The opening bid from Peter Chernin and Mike Kerns was $7.5… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1359 | "What Chernin didn’t get at first is that this wasn’t a… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1360 | "The Chernin guys did what they said. They gave us money.… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1361 | "If I think an employee of mine deserves a raise, I give it… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1362 | "We want to create superstars, and if they leave for more… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1363 | "“I don’t want Sofia, even if she decides to take the deal.… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1364 | "Why would I give the IP to somebody else? If I was going… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1365 | "At the time, Barstool was losing close to $12 million a… | Cancel Me If You Can | Nonfiction |
| #c1183 | "they [Carthaginians] come here and unload their cargo;… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1184 | "‘as much land as could be covered by a single hide of an… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1185 | "Elissa and her group of rebels fled the city by night,… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1186 | "He set sail with sixty fifty-oared ships, about thirty… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1187 | "Their expedition may well have been an attempt to cut out… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1188 | "The original document, we believe, was written down and… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1189 | "Inscribed on a wild boar-shaped ivory card were the words… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1190 | "informing it of Alexander’s plans using hidden texts,… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1191 | "Polybius records that Gisgo wanted to demobilise the… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1192 | "The Carthaginian commander in the field oversaw… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1193 | "‘for the Carthaginians choose their magistrates, and… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1194 | "Success for the population at Carthage was largely… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1195 | "Founded as a modern Mediterranean city, Lilybaeum grew… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1196 | "‘for each sacrifice which a person poor in cattle or in… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1197 | "They [the magistrates of Carthage] unanimously decided to… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1198 | "the Romans may come for trading purposes, and the… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1199 | "The way it worked is that a ship would move from port to… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1200 | "‘in the twentieth year of the rule of the sufetes in… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1201 | "At Carthage, drinking alcohol was banned if you were… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1202 | "‘for a double wall enclosed them, and there were gates by… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1203 | "The African style of building was a very stable… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1204 | "The fact that Carthage would continue to pay tribute to… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1205 | "Worshipped at this temple was a goddess presented in the… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1206 | "we know this act of mass sacrifice never appears in any of… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1207 | "Here we can see that military duties were separated from… | Carthage: A New History | Nonfiction |
| #c1321 | "“Can you live with yourself if you pass on it?” he’ll ask.… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1322 | "But Todd had made a point of building relationships across… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1323 | "“Obviously I work for the president and he’s in the… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1324 | "“It’s always easier to vote no,” says John Connell, Todd’s… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1325 | "This is not hard if you feel like you don’t share the… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1326 | "“Pick the one that’s easier for you to explain,” Manchin… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1327 | "“If you do this job and you’re always worried about the… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1328 | "“She likes to say the Navy taught her that you lead,… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1329 | "“Mikie ran the race her way,” says her onetime campaign… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1330 | "“I just have one piece of advice,” the Speaker said. “Do… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1331 | "In his initial twelve months, Wes proposed ten priority… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1332 | "Brian assured him he had thirteen Republican votes,… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1333 | "Republican leaders had stopped calling Brian. In his view,… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1334 | "He often remembers his older brother’s advice: “Once votes… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1335 | "He opened with a question: “Are you here to do something,… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1336 | "Good rule in life: I try hard not to offend; I try harder… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1337 | "“I applied Marine Corps Leadership 101 to the campaign,”… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1338 | "Seth recalls, “A vet came up to me in Nevada and said, ‘I… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1339 | "That night in Baghdad, John came to understand an Army… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1340 | "“They taught us to be objective by listening to both… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1341 | "“Always have a smile,” he says, describing his approach to… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1342 | "“I will never let anyone bring me to my knees like that,”… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1343 | "“Dig into it,” he says. “If you read a book, follow the… | Courage Can Save Us | Nonfiction |
| #c1300 | "“We’ve learned to bite off smaller pieces with our… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1301 | "“Previously, we were built for large-scale project… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1302 | "They want to pick up the phone because that might be their… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1303 | "Instead, ask yourself, “How will this initiative make life… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1304 | "They were set up to take care of technology, not people.… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1305 | "I would advise always thinking about the three “Ps” –… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1306 | "In my opinion, “data is the new oil” was always a… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1307 | "We’ve learned firsthand that you can have years and years… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1308 | "It would be a very clarifying question for a CEO to ask… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1309 | "When we started on digital transformation at Ford, I… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1310 | "In my time, I never had a tier-one supplier ever shut us… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1311 | "“The moment this robot makes noise coming through, it just… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1312 | "The biggest stigma with AI is thinking that when you’re… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1313 | "Lastly, change management doesn’t end with the change… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1314 | "“We described it as ‘moving out of mom and dad’s house.’… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1315 | "Everyone thinks, ‘My data is my data, and that’s exactly… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1316 | "“Every system, probably just like every person, probably… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1317 | "“My whole goal is to reduce IT as a cost center and ensure… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1318 | "It’s both incredibly disruptive and overhyped. It’s… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1319 | "Three to five years. We always underestimate how long it… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1320 | "One notable example of digital chaos was that 89% of the… | Digital Impact | Nonfiction |
| #c1208 | "The trick is that he did not organise his notes by topic,… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1209 | "By restricting ourselves to one format, we also restrict… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1210 | "Write exactly one note for each idea and write as if you… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1211 | "If you use other tools, make sure everything ends up in… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1212 | "Do not brainstorm for a topic. Look into the slip-box… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1213 | "Remember the lesson: ‘An idea or a fact is not worth more… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1214 | "The archivist asks: Which keyword is the most fitting? A… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1215 | "When we realise that we used to accept two contradicting… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1216 | "…whenever a published fact, a new observation or thought… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1217 | "With a good system, the mere necessities of the workflow… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1218 | "Open tasks tend to occupy our short-term memory – until… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1219 | "We tend to call extremely slow writers, who always try to… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1220 | "Handwriting makes pure copying impossible, but instead… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1221 | "Rereading is especially dangerous because of the… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1222 | "Physicist and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman once said… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1223 | "Be extra selective with quotes – don’t copy them to skip… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1224 | "But the main reason is the slip-box, which compares to… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1225 | "He turned to his slip-box, and with its help he obtained… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1226 | "I only do what is easy. I only write when I immediately… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1227 | "Most ship owners had in fact considered the idea of… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1228 | "…he wouldn’t be able to write a single sentence if he… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1229 | "For every document I write, I have another called… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1230 | "The structure of an argument is part of it and therefore… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1231 | "Any attempts to trick ourselves into work with external… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1232 | "Luhmann states as clearly as possible: it is not possible… | How to Take Smart Notes | Nonfiction |
| #c1366 | "Every woman I’d talked to hated that they’d sit in a salon… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1367 | "The flyer offered a $9.95 shampoo-and-blow-dry and… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1368 | "It was Mathew’s idea to put everyone on file in the… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1369 | "Someone would always be at the ready to lead her to the… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1370 | "“You can make the hair as strong as you want, Tenie, but… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1371 | "We got our stylists right out of beauty school, so none… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
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| #c1373 | "“That girl is not your competition. You are your only… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1374 | "“Mama, I’m happy that you didn’t go up there and fight… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1375 | "For them, Mathew developed summer “boot camp,” part of… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1376 | "But he also reeled off a list of people who’d lost on Star… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1377 | "They thought record labels advanced you a pile of cash to… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1378 | "“Did you negotiate anything?” Because Mathew had a… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1379 | "I began designing clothes out of necessity, not because I… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1380 | "If there weren’t four amazing outfits, I wouldn’t use… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1381 | "…when you’re sitting in the sixtieth row and you see some… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1382 | "We didn’t think Destiny’s Child needed to move to pop,… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1383 | "He reached for the light switch and flicked it off. They… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1384 | "But this time, Mathew had told them exactly what they said… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1385 | "I had always noticed that when clothing lines were… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1386 | "In two weeks, I had it decorated: I made four little… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1387 | "…a burnt roux was ruin to your gumbo. If that happened,… | Matriarch | Nonfiction |
| #c1255 | "…‘negotiation is getting something by giving something,… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1256 | "Public bluff and bluster intended to induce caution often… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1257 | "He was careful not to describe this as an ultimatum, but… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1258 | "Kennedy evidently felt that the idea would be more… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1259 | "As the audiotapes of deliberations on the first day of the… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1260 | "It is difficult to solve a tangible conflict of interest… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1261 | "In short, Khrushchev squandered on deception the one… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1262 | "Khrushchev, as I have already mentioned, treated Castro… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1263 | "But when American and Soviet negotiators met at the United… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1264 | "It is a mark of the trust that Kennedy and Khrushchev had… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1265 | "I much prefer the term ‘honest broker’. For me it is… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1266 | "It is the negotiators who matter, not the mediators—but in… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1267 | "Mediation may not be the right answer when the parties do… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1268 | "The greatest source of risk often comes from… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1269 | "Constituents are less likely to accept an agreement… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1270 | "A peace agreement is not the end, it is the beginning. The… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1271 | "Waiting for Godot—interminably delaying for the arrival of… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1272 | "Slipstreaming—concealing preferences behind the positions… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1273 | "Moving the goalposts—whatever is achievable becomes by… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1274 | "Reframing—recasting hurdles, problems, or solution options… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1275 | "Leaders need to think of themselves as being in a circle… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1276 | "Politics has become a contest of competitive credibility.… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1277 | "What is his advice? Above all, ‘listen and then think’… | The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy | Nonfiction |
| #c1233 | "Here’s the operating principle: All other things being… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1234 | "Keep a CONSTANT WATCH on the DOUBTFUL VOTERS, and from… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1235 | "Whenever a new way to reach someone unsolicitedly and… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1236 | "The most recent review of the available evidence found… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1237 | "When someone on the fence says something that surprises… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1238 | "When you see someone, flash them your winningest smile,… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1239 | "Perhaps the most notorious example of this phenomenon came… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1240 | "Every one of the tactics listed above, and the many others… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1241 | "The lower-profile the election, the bigger the impact of… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1242 | "I’m not asking you to do everything. I’m asking you to do… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1243 | "That helped inspire my own mantra in the 2022 election… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1244 | "For many people, all of politics—left, right, and… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1245 | "You meet people where they are. You build relationships.… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1246 | "She’s building relationships, looking not just for… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1247 | "But the final percentage point or two in a campaign can… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1248 | "…I said that we were building a “nominee-neutral… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1249 | "What you do in the four years between elections helps… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1250 | "The idea is that, if someone’s at one rung of the ladder,… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1251 | "Voting is habit-forming. It’s identity-forming." "Once… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1252 | "Take a step back. Look at the data. Listen to everyone.… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1253 | "Our vote model isn’t the kind of thing that you can share… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1254 | "The party whose turnout drops by less from the… | This Is the Plan | Nonfiction |
| #c1278 | "Keynes asks us to imagine a newspaper which holds a… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1279 | "Younger children, or those without a fully developed… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1280 | "There is a market aphorism that says: Early is the same… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1281 | "The money is made by those who can get outside themselves… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1282 | "“Brady, I want you to stop worrying about what all the… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1283 | "If you put a forecast way above everyone else and the… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1284 | "Ask yourself regularly: Am I trading for fun, or to make… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1285 | "Principle 14: Avoid risk of ruin first. Maximize returns… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1286 | "One of the best tells in markets is a market that fails to… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1287 | "In poker, the dream scenario is you run into a player on… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1288 | "When a market enters a tight trading range after a… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1289 | "The simple definition of an ergodic system is one where… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1290 | "We saw opposite market reactions to identical policy… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1291 | "Narrative contagion is the process whereby a story shared… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1292 | "All other things equal, you should think that Jo only has… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1293 | "If adverse selection dominated, nobody would ever trade… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1294 | "I don’t shy away from hard topics, but if the answer to… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1295 | "I would write a big piece about Australian Terms of Trade… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1296 | "Mental capital is an important, underappreciated and… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1297 | "The more profitable my strategy, the more likely someone… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1298 | "“Your reputation is like a teacup. Once it’s broken, it’s… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1299 | "There is a meme that says: If you improve by 1% per day,… | Trade Outside the Box | Nonfiction |
| #c1464 | a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1465 | Society is produced by our wants, and government by our… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1466 | government even in its best state is but a necessary evil;… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1467 | For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1468 | Even brutes do not devour their young, nor savages make war… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1469 | there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1470 | The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries,… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1471 | Open trade with everyone. Each trading nation's interest… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1472 | in America the law is king. For as in absolute governments… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1473 | Annual assemblies and a more equal vote for… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1474 | He prices a whole fleet at 3,500,000. Tar, timber, iron and… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1475 | Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations… | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1476 | We have it in our power to begin the world over again | Common Sense | Nonfiction |
| #c1519 | And Speusippus, in his book which is entitled the Funeral… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1520 | Plato says that that is an object of sensation, which is… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1521 | LXVIII. A good state of affairs with reference to the laws,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1522 | Plato then explains the opinions which he entertains… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1523 | XXXVIII. But he employs a great variety of terms in order… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1524 | And the explanation of his arguments is three-fold. For… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1525 | XL. These now were his chief opinions. He affirmed that the… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1526 | VI. And Sosicrates, in his Successions, relates that he,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1527 | IV. Heraclides Ponticus says, that he was accustomed to… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1528 | VIII. He was the first person, as Timæus says, who asserted… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1529 | XVI. For he was very eminent for his power of attracting… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1530 | Alexander also says, in his Successions of Philosophers,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1531 | Moreover, that Mercury is the steward of the souls, and… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1532 | IV. Satyrus tells us that he used to say that he had been… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1533 | XI. And some people, (of whom Satyrus is one,) say that he… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1534 | But Aristotle, in the first book of his Treatise on… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1535 | But of Philosophy there arose two schools. One derived from… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1536 | But Aristotle and Hippias say that he attributed souls also… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1537 | Now it is known to every one what happened with respect to… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1538 | Solon the son of Execestides, a native of Salamis, was the… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1539 | They say, too, that when he [Chilo] was old he said, that… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1540 | He once, when he was sent by his father into the fields to… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1541 | ...and the work of the Syrian Pherecydes is preserved, and… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1542 | “He was above all men of a lofty and arrogant spirit, as is… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1543 | “In particulars, his doctrines are of this kind. That fire… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1544 | “The following may be set down in a general manner as his… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1545 | “That many bodies, of various kinds and shapes, are borne… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1546 | “He also says, that he was so industrious a man, that he… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1547 | “Now his principal doctrines were these. That atoms and the… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1548 | “And Nicocreon did not forget his grudge against him for… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1549 | “Also the expression, ‘Every reason has a corresponding… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1550 | “And he used to associate with himself, in the composition… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1551 | The Stoics divide reason according to philosophy, into… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1552 | Perception, again, is an impression produced on the mind,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1553 | And when he made a considerable advance in philosophy he… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1554 | They say that the first inclination which an animal has is… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1555 | Moreover, they divide all existing things into good, bad,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1556 | And all perturbation is itself, according to Zeno, a… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1557 | And they lay down the position that all offences are equal,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1558 | They think that there are two general principles in the… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1559 | They say that he was once scourging a slave whom he had… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1560 | Also, that the soul is sensible, and that it is a spirit… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1561 | Now, in the Canon, Epicurus says that the criteria of truth… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1562 | Moreover, there are images resembling, as far as their form… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1563 | Let us now return to the study of the affections, and of… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1564 | We cannot act in the same way with respect to the heavenly… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1565 | And we must consider that some of the passions are natural,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1566 | “1. “That which is happy and imperishable, neither has… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1567 | “10. “If apprehensions relating to the heavenly bodies did… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1568 | “30. “Of the desires, some are natural and necessary, some… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |
| #c1569 | “33. “Natural justice is a covenant of what is suitable,… | Lives of Eminent Philosophers | Nonfiction |