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A human being who finds himself stuck at some boring meeting or cocktail party often finds it difficult to invent an excuse to flee. Amos’s rule, whenever he wanted to leave any gathering, was to just get up and leave. Just start walking and you’ll be surprised how creative you will become and how fast you’ll find the words for your excuse, he said. His attitude to the clutter of daily life was of a piece with his strategy for dealing with social demands. Unless you are kicking yourself once a month for throwing something away, you are not throwing enough away, he said.
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
The most I can say is that the S&L control frauds powerfully affected our political system. My personal view is that they damaged it. The social and political effects of waves of control fraud are clear, and in Russia and some of the other former Soviet bloc nations, they are tragic. Life expectancy has fallen dramatically, violence has increased, respect for Western institutions has plummeted, and poverty and disease rates have surged. These social and political effects have made many Russians hostile to the United States, and the effects feed back into economic policies that can cause further damage (Stiglitz 2003). Effective markets are neither natural nor inevitable. Markets are institutions shaped by law, culture, and morals. They are vulnerable to control frauds. Such frauds cannot be defeated for all time; eternal vigilance is essential. Effective regulation is essential if modern markets are to remain honest and efficient.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One
William K. Black
Why is she driven to tell the tale? Usually it’s to go back and recover some lost aspect of the past so it can be integrated into current identity.
The Art of Memoir
Mary Karr
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