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Ever the pragmatist as well as the tough competitor, Hill also eventually presaged another future characteristic when he abruptly changed course and parleyed with his chief competitors to bring peace to the area coal industry by joining together in a market-sharing consortium.
Michael P. Malone • James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest (The Oklahoma Western Biographies Book 12)
North had worked for the arms-length, extra-judicial, extra-governmental agency known as the Board for four years. He was going to die young – the bullet guaranteed it. He told them he wanted to do something useful with the time he had left. And they took him at his word.
Judith O'Reilly • Killing State
Approximately 2,700 years ago, the Greek poet Archilochus wrote that “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” Isaiah Berlin’s 1953 essay “The Fox and the Hedgehog” contrasts hedgehogs that “relate everything to a single, central vision” with foxes who “pursue many ends connected…if at all, only in some de facto way.” It’s ... See more
Vikram Mansharamani • All Hail the Generalist
ambitious young man of thirty-seven with a high forehead, thick,
William Dalrymple • White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
curiosity is deviant.
Ian Leslie • Curious
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Lawrence Block • In the Midst of Death (Matthew Scudder Book 3)
I trust that there is more than meets the eye.