Our greatest medical accomplishments—the discoveries that saved millions of lives and alleviated untold suffering—were not preordained, nor inevitable. … More often than not, these crucial advances depended on just one, or a handful, of individuals—fallible people who, through perseverance, skill, and sometimes dumb luck, took risks or made key observations that no one else had previously been willing or able to.

Imagine your future self. Then, the possibility of making right plans for abundant life after your retirement, performing effective investment, exercising hard, and maintaining righteous diet rises. On the other hand, the chance of you doing deviating from life or self-destruction gets lower.

When humanity started its journey until the modern society, it all started from distribution of water.

This book will be foundation for readers who are investment beginners to be interested in the new U.S. corporations. It will also save lots of your time taken in corporate analysis to determine companies to invest in.

Indeed, without being able to call on our prior experiences, we would have no basis on which to forecast and prepare for future events

Both cyclical and diversified investing are not easy. Cyclical investing has to contend with the fear of investment failure. [..] Asset allocation, on the other hand, has to fight boredom.

“Autism was always secondary in our household, and that mentality set the course for my life.”

“pain is by far the most complex of all the sensations.”

“This book portrays the Federal Reserve through a historical lens, which allows us to see into its current state of affairs but also gives us an idea of what it will become in the future. That is how the book delved into the topic, and there is no better way to understand the Federal Reserve’s tactics, strategies, and communication methods which have made that institution what it is today.”

“Flexing is a particular method for increasing your own effectiveness”

“the same goes for adult males of the human community, who are capable of extreme acts of heroism, tenderness, and generosity, but also of violence and cruelty.”

"There are many benefits to studying English with quotes. Not only is it motivating, but it makes you take a second look at the sentence, pondering the speaker's intent and purpose. So as your heart moves and your brain begins to work, the sentence itself is repeated twice, three times, four times... The sentences are reborn in us. If we come across a life quote, it could be the thing that changes our lives." - From the foreword

“You can’t improve English speaking just by practice alone, especially in intermediate level. By carefully comparing the word order and structure of my English sentences with those of a native speaker, like the overall framework, the frequency of preposition use, etc., you can find exactly where you are weak and what you need to fill in. Once you start practicing with that knowledge, you will be able to get even more out of your practice.” -p.125

“There is no ‘fast’ way to learn a language. Learning ‘fast’ often does not bring good results. Think of it this way: Rather than learning a language, you are learning a culture. Enjoy the process itself. That will certainly bring you good results.”

“companies are not soulless entities; they are human organizations made of individuals working together toward a common purpose.”

“choice no longer liberates, but debilitates.”

“Life is finite. It is never infinite.”

“I will do my utmost to make people say, ‘<Kim Jaewoo’s Top 100 English Conversation Tips> was the turning point of English conversation in Korea. I hope that after 100 years, you will be able to speak English that much easier, and I wish you all the best in your learning.” - From the prologue

“Death controls the length of our days. But we control the depth of our days.”

“In other words, pain is not detected by the brain: it is made by it.”

“Social media functions like a prism that amplifies the rants of status-seeking extremists, while at the same time, discouraging the expression of more moderate views of those who see little worth in engaging in political arguments.”

“The stock market is a place where the ones that survive the longest and the ones that can win.”

“America was a beacon to the world because it was engaged in a bold experiment: replacing artificial distinctions with natural distinctions. The great pronouncement at the heart of the Declaration of Independence – that ‘all men are created equal’– did not mean that all men are created alike and interchangeable, with the same abilities and virtues. It meant that no artificial differences of class and caste should be piled on top of the natural differences of ability and energy."

“History – with a capital H – isn’t a time or a place in the past, it’s an intellectual attempt at reconstructing what we think happened in the past.”

“The best attitude to failure is the one that willingly invites it.”