You have to know accounting or have an accountant. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.
--Charlie Munger
My Review:
I read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne a few months ago. I think it’s a great book and quite a boost for those on the journey to wellness. It can really be helpful and energizing for those of us who have become discouraged.
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If you were in a negative situation, would you want someone’s sympathy if that’s all they had to give? For me the answer would be no. I’ve always believed that sympathy, unless it’s about a death in the family, is a backhanded positive. The sympathizer is in a superior position over the sympathy recipient. Even in the case of a death in the family, the sympathizer is still in a position of power. Someone has lost a person that is relationally important to them and the sympathizer haven’t so they get to have sympathy for the person who lost a loved one. What makes it acceptable is that as long as there are people that we value in the world, sooner or later, we are all the recipient of sympathy in that situation.