"since man is a moment in time a transient guest of the earth a Spore of his species a s of his race a composite of body character and mind a member of a family and a community a Believer or doubter of..."

"lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant you and I normally get together and speak about a biography about person the way to think about the book that I'm holding my hand is this is a 100 Page biog..."

"any moment a comet may come too close to the Earth and set our little Globe turning Topsy Turvy in a hectic course or choke its men and fleas with fumes or heat or a fragment of The Smiling Sun May sl..."

"become fossils in its soil the last time I read the book when I got to this part this is what I wrote reminds me of why Nolan Bushnell said he was Steve Jobs Mentor you he said Steve Jobs only had one..."

"as technology grows so I was thinking about the own the life of will Durant specifically because he started he wrote like the first half of the story of civilization alone and then his wife joins for ..."

"progress in one Lifetime and that continues to accelerate today like even the technology I used to to produce that list and to help me with the research of this episode if you're not already using the..."

"from one simple sentence because the influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows what the impact what's fascinating to think about that is the influence of what else besides Geograp..."

"our family community company he didn't write company but I'm putting it in there our family community company Club Church party race nation in order to strengthen our group in its competition with oth..."

"in every single audible subscription war is a nation's way of eating it promotes cooperation because it is the ultimate form of competition the second biological lesson of history is that life is sele..."

"myself I read this book a couple years ago I should read it every year I should remember to read it every year because you can read it you know in a weekend differentiation produces unequal value lear..."

"men unequally valuable to their group back to this for freedom and equality are sworn in Everlasting enemies and when one prevails the other dies if you leave men free and their natural inequalities w..."

"look at the difference and growth between Cuba and America and this next sentence a society in which all potential abilities are allowed to develop and function will have a survival Advantage so let's..."

"sentence summary in there the adoption by successful Rebels rebels of the methods they were accustomed to condemn and the forces they deposed new situations however do arise requiring novel unstereoty..."

"would in normal times have remained potential untapped and just listen to this writing events take place through him as well as around him his ideas and decisions enter vitally into the course of hist..."

"that and I'm not casting judgment on what any businesses that other people build but you see that there's businesses around us that will endure no matter what some legal some not right and so it says ..."

"week with a 150 uh very inspiring and ambitious and successful entrepreneurs that listen to this podcast and this is something that actually came up I wish I I we didn't record anything on purpose I w..."

"the example I used a couple days ago was Jeff Bezos there's ideas and phrases and and mindsets that are in his very first shareholder in 97 that are in his last one 20 years later and you see this ove..."

"bad they Define good as that which survives and bad as which goes under how many times do you and I talk about and repeat the quotes and the ideas of of History greatest Founders on the importance of ..."

"money Warren and Charlie would smack you in the face if you did that so Warren says by being so cautious in respect to leverage we penalize our returns by a minor amount having loads of liquidity load..."

"inviting and directing the flow of capital putting our money doubly and to work controlling loans and interest in Enterprise running great risks to make great great great gains rise to the top of the ..."

"majority of such abilities is gathered in the minority of men the concentration of wealth is a natural result of this concentration of ability and regularly reoccurs in history the rate of concentrati..."

"interludes so what are they saying monarchy is the longest lasting and most common form of government in history democracies by contrast have been hectic interludes now this is there is a a statement ..."

"eating it promotes cooperation because it's the ultimate form of competition and that the first biological lesson of history is that life is competition and so this next sentence although provocative ..."

"of War are the same as the causes of competition among individuals acquisitiveness pugnacity and pride the desire for food Land materials fuels and Mastery war is the final Arbiter a nation must be re..."

"you and I call Founders right of creative individuals with Clarity of mind and energy of will capable of effective responses to new situations that and they're talking about civilizations they're talk..."

"survival of creative minds is the most real and beneficiary of immortality going back to this if you can find an enduring need you can build a business around that all technological advances will have..."

"the transmission of civilization we are unquestionably progressing civilization is not inherited it has to be learned and earned by each generation a new if the transmission should be interrupted for ..."

"342 books down 1,000 AO and I'll talk to you again soon okay so just one quick update for you uh before you go so this feature that I mentioned in this episode where I was on the phone with one of the..."