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Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions; strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

The hallmark of a private-equity deal is the so-called leveraged buyout. Funds take on massive amounts of debt to buy companies, with the goal of reselling in a few years at a profit. If all of that debt becomes hard to pay back—because of, say, an economic downturn or rising interest rates—a wave of defaults could ripple through the financial

I was beginning to lose track of what “society” actually was.

"Then it must be my sixth sense. A gift God gave me — or maybe a curse.

All I know is that I've suffered because of it."

There is an art to flocking: staying separate enough not to crowd each other, aligned enough to maintain a shared direction, and cohesive enough to always move towards each other

“So, you want me to worship a white god?”

I could hear the store’s voice telling me what it wanted, how it wanted to be. I understood it perfectly.