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“Do not force people to choose between doing what is smart and doing what helps them save face.”
― Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts
― Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts
“But progress in the current negotiation is not the only potential victim of short-termism. A myopic approach to negotiating, even if a deal is reached, can exacerbate the likelihood of future conflict, or diminish our ability to resolve it.”
― Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts
― Negotiating the Impossible: How to Break Deadlocks and Resolve Ugly Conflicts
“For political and social as well as for military reasons the preferred way of bringing about victory was the shortest, most direct way, and that meant using all possible force.”
― On War
― On War
“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”
― Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
― Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations
“Accept that there are some losses that never stop hurting, so you can stop delving into them, get used to living with a heavy heart, and try to build a better life.”
― F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
― F*ck Feelings: One Shrink's Practical Advice for Managing All Life's Impossible Problems
Wen’s 2024 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Business, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Self help, Spirituality, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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