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중요하지 않은 일에 그다지 신경 쓰지 않기

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. 중요하다고 할 수 있을 정도로 큰 싸움이면서도 승산이 충분한 싸움에 참여하라. -Jonathan Kool --------- "사소한 일에 진땀 빼지 말라." 이 말을 달리 표현하면 정말 좋아하는 것을 위해 힘쓰라는 말이다. 이울러 승산이 전혀 없는 싸움에는 끼어들지 말아야 한다. ..

The Destruction of the Pashas' Mansion: A Sad Tour of the Streets(4)

The only other escape was to go out with my mother. Because it was not yet the custom to take children to parks or gardens for their daily fresh air, the day I went out with my mother was an event. "Tomorrow I'm going out with my mother!" I'd boast to my aunt's son, who was three rueas my hunior. After walking down the spiral staircase, we would pause before the little window facing the door th..

The Destruction of the Pashas' Mansion: A Sad Tour of the Streets(3)

Watching the pasha's mansions burn to the ground, my family maintained a stony equanimity--much as we had done in the face of all those stories about crazy princes, opium addicts in the palace harem, children locked in attics, treacherous sultan's daughters, and exiled or murdered pashas--and ultimately the decline and fall of the empire itself. As we in Nisantasi saw it, the Republic had done ..