Arranging for your country to do better than its neighbours by doing better is hard. Damaging your neighbours do they do worse is easier.
https://engelsbergideas.com/notebook/russias-empire-of-ruins/
Neighbours are the world in one sense, and people in the next town who voted differently in another.
And it is an error in all cases.
from 40 Days in the Desert, Moebius
this guy is so amazing, I love what's happening here. You can see the direction of the wind from the blowing dust.
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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Speech (1899-04-10), “The Strenuous Life,” Hamilton Club, Chicago
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those who neither enjoy much or suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
A quotation from Samuel Johnson
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111
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To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and…
I finally figured out what I want to do (with my life?) but now my focus needs to be on work. sigh
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*He has told you!*O man!*what is good!*& what does the Lord require of you!*but to do justice!*& to love kindness!*& to walk humbly with your God!
#Strive #Striving #Holy #Goodness #Truth #Loving #God #Holy #Spirit #Jesus #Christ #Savior #Caring #Repent
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*What Does the Lord Require?
*He has told you!*O man!*what is good!*& what does the Lord require of you!*but to do justice!*& to love kindness!*& to walk humbly with your God!
#Strive #Striving #Holy #Goodness #Truth #Loving #God #Holy #Spirit #Jesus #Christ #Savior #Caring #Repent
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