Two Thoughts (30 March - 5 April)
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“With insights from history’s most remarkable minds, Two Thoughts serves as both a daily companion and a wellspring of ideas, encouraging you to approach life with curiosity, courage, and a sense of wonder.”
– Vitaliy Katsenelson
Sunday, 30 March
Two thoughts from Peter Biskind
“There can be nothing more sterile than an extended conversation between two people who basically agree. If we basically disagreed we’d be getting somewhere.”
“I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.”
Monday, 31 March
Two thoughts from Raffi Grinberg
"If you don’t design your own life, others will design it for you."
"Imagine you had no fear of rejection. That would be the ultimate superpower! You would be willing to try anything."
Tuesday, 1 April
Two thoughts from Lawrence Block
“Every year there’s a few more things I’m not sure of. I’ve decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.”
“Ideas come to people who are receptive to them.”
Wednesday, 2 April
Two thoughts from Erik Larson
"Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere."
"I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and work inward."
Thursday, 3 April
Two thoughts from Josef Pieper
"Fortitude presupposes vulnerability; without vulnerability there is no possibility of fortitude."
"Blind wrath shuts the eyes of the spirit before they have been able to grasp the facts and to judge them."
Friday, 4 April
Two thoughts from William von Hippel
"The two universal domains on which we evaluate others are competence and warmth. We care if people are capable and we care if they are friendly."
"Humans are unique among all the animals in our capacity to envision the future."
Saturday, 5 April
Two thoughts from Ada Palmer
“Is it not miraculous, reader, the power of the mind to believe and not believe at once?”
“What we choose means more than what is handed to us by chance.”
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