“She took a sip of Armagnac and savored the caramel, cherry, dark chocolate, and lavender flavors.
"How do they make this?" she asked.
"It's basically brandy, distilled wine, but made in a more rustic, artisanal way.”
Source: Eat Post Like
“When the means of great violence are widespread, nothing is more dangerous to the powerful than that they create outrage and injustice, for outrage and injustice will certainly ignite retaliation in kind.
— BuSab Manual”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“The difference between the earnings of a common labourer and those of a well employed lawyer or physician, is
evidently much greater than that between the ordinary profits in any two different branches of trade. The
apparent difference, besides, in the profits of different trades, is generally a deception arising from our not
always distinguishing what ought to be considered as wages, from what ought to be considered as profit.”
Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nation vol II VIIth edition 1793 [Leather Bound]
“No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails.
— Gowachin Law”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“In our book, alignment means being a partner in both directions, not just on the upside. Many “alignment” plans flunk this basic test, being artful forms of “heads I win, tails you lose.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
“... to figure out why ethics, moral obligations, and skills cannot be easily separable in real life, consider the following when you tell someone in a position of responsibility, say your bookkeeper, "I trust you." Do you mean that one you trust his ethics?”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Don't tell me what you think: just tell me what's in your portfolio.”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“One aspect of soulful healing that is most challenging and therefore most fruitful is the need to release a part of your story that may be lying underneath and behind the illness. Healing requires a willingness to rewrite the story you tell yourself about what has happened in your life and
why it’s happened. There is often an emotional attachment to the pattern
that doesn’t allow for easy change.”
Source: The Gift of Healing Herbs: Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life
“Indian thought has traditionally regarded history and prehistory in cyclical rather than linear terms. In the West time is an arrow -- we are born, we live, we die. But in India we die only to be reborn. Indeed, it is a deeply rooted idea in Indian spiritual traditions that the earth itself and all living creatures upon it are locked into an immense cosmic cycle of birth, growth, fruition, death, rebirth and renewal. Even temples are reborn after they grow too old to be used safely -- through the simple expedient of reconstruction on the same site.
Within this pattern of spiralling cycles, where everything that goes around comes around, India conceives of four great epochs of 'world ages' of varying but enormous lengths: the Krita Yuga, the Treta Yuga, the Davapara Yuga and the Kali Yuga. At the end of each yuga a cataclysm, known as pralaya, engulfs the globe in fire or flood. Then from the ruins of the former age, like the Phoenix emerging from the ashes, the new age begins.”
Source: Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
“What epoch are we in? The epoch of decay! Why? Because we are in an epoch where fools accuse intelligent people of being fools!”