Clifford geertz wrote that one of the most significant…

Clifford geertz wrote that one of the most significant facts about humanity is that we all begin life with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of life but end up just living one. This means that the choices that we make so frequently can lead us into so many directions but yet we only end up with one life we have led. Interesting thing to think about.

— from Before Takeoff (front matter) · GB written

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And like a real pilot, you are flying several routes at once — through the world of family, the world of friends, the world of work — and you do not have to be the best in every one of them; you may be at the pinnacle in one and merely average in another, and which is which is your own choice to make. A wise man once observed that each of us is born with the natural equipment to live a thousand different kinds of life, and then we go and live just one. This book is my attempt to help you choose that one well. — Before Takeoff (front matter)

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