why creating friction to avoid temptation is itself an act of agency, and how the cultures we choose to join end up shaping who we become.
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She never outgrows the burden of love, and to the end she carries the weight of hope for those she bore. Oddly, very oddly, she is forever surprised and even faintly wronged that her sons and daughters are just people, for many mothers hope and half expect that their newborn child will make the world better, will somehow be a redeemer.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
The market is brutally efficient at processing publicly available information. Your edge, if you have one, almost certainly lies in your ability to wait longer than the person on the other side of the trade — not in knowing something they don't.
Seth Klarman — Margin of Safety
It is not the neutrality of the judge that makes justice, but his passionate will to discover what is true. A judge who merely balances probabilities has abdicated his function.
Learned Hand — The Spirit of Liberty (address at 'I Am an American Day' ceremony, Central Park)