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It was a city that had been built just to be abandoned, in which all the fears and madnesses and revulsions of the creatures who built it were made into stone.
The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean
Recapping wins & milestones kicks the review off on a positive note.
So often, our focus is on the negative.
But this questions helps us celebrate all the things going well!
And it also creates a "ledger" of wins from the year.
From there, you ask a more important question:
The Most Powerful Reflec...
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A second and equally important reason why empires actively spread a common culture was to gain legitimacy. At least since the days of Cyrus and Qín Shĭ Huángdì, empires have justified their actions – whether road-building or bloodshed – as necessary to spread a superior culture from which the conquered benefit even more than the conquerors.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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