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So who was the visionary convict who dreamt up the Erie canal? It was the early 1800s and struggling businessman Jesse Hawley was a flour seller who bought wheat around Geneva, New York, had it milled in Seneca Falls, and—like other entrepreneurs of the time—ran into trouble with transport.
Ronan McMahon's Big Book of Profitable Real Estate Investing
Ronan McMahon and Aine Flaherty
Hayes couldn’t become a partner because he was too fat. Johnson couldn’t cope in the so-called normal world of nine-to-five. Strasser was an insurance lawyer who hated insurance—and lawyers. Woodell lost all his youthful dreams in one fluke accident. I got cut from the baseball team. And I got my heart broken. I identified with the born loser in each Buttface, and vice versa, and I knew that together we could become winners.
Charles Darwin lost his with the help of another: “I cannot persuade myself,” Darwin wrote, “that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
River Out of Eden
Richard Dawkins
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