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  1. Barry Eisler _ Zero Sum

    Context had reinforced familiarity, and familiarity had blinded them to new possibilities.
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  2. Barry Eisler _ Zero Sum

    The mindfulness he spoke of was called nen in Japanese-an acknowledgment, an appreciation, of the importance of small things. The things that make living more worthwhile. And that, in my work, make it more probable, as well.
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  3. Barry Eisler _ Zero Sum

    Is there any teacher better, more patient, more determined than fate?
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  4. Barry Eisler _ Zero Sum

    What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions."
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  5. Barry Eisler _ Zero Sum

    I read Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society, where Niebuhr talked about how the baser self has to deceive the better self to get the better self's buy-in for behavior it would never otherwise agree to."
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