Day 199 · Wed, May 5, 2027 · Five editions

Wed, May 5, 2027

Five emails a day: 00:00 Night / 07:00 Morning / 12:00 Noon / 17:00 Evening / 21:00 Figures

00:00 Night · Career · Chinese classics

司馬光:Zizhi Tongjian, Volume 197, Entry 14

司馬光《資治通鑑》· 卷197·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之下貞觀十九年(乙巳,公元六四五年) · Leadership · Health · Decision · Growth

李世勣進至遼東城下。庚午,車駕至遼澤,泥淖二百餘里,人馬不可通,將作大匠閻立德布土作橋,軍不留行。壬申,渡澤東。乙亥,高麗步騎四萬救遼東,江夏王道宗將四千騎逆擊之,軍中皆以為眾寡懸絕,不若深溝高壘以俟車駕之至。道宗曰:「賊恃眾,有輕我心,遠來疲頓,擊之必敗。且吾屬為前軍,當清道以待乘輿,乃更以賊遺君父乎!」李世勣以為然。果毅都尉馬文舉曰:「不遇勁敵,何以顯壯士!」策馬趨敵,所向皆靡,眾心稍安。既合戰,行軍總管張君乂退走,唐兵不利,道宗收散卒,登高而望,見高麗陳亂,與驍騎數十沖之,左右出入;李世勣引兵助之,高麗大敗,斬首千餘級。

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卷197·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝中之下貞觀十九年(乙巳,公元六四五年)·第14则

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07:00 Morning · Health · Chinese classics

孔子及其弟子:Analects 6.2

孔子及其弟子《論語》· 雍也第六·六之二 · Cognition · Health · Character · Philosophy

哀公問:「弟子孰爲好學?」孔子對曰:「有顏回者,好學;不遷怒,不貳過,不幸短命死矣!今也則亡,未聞好學者也。」

Source: https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E8%AB%96%E8%AA%9E/%E9%9B%8D%E4%B9%9F%E7%AC%AC%E5%85%AD
雍也第六·六之二

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12:00 Noon · Investing · Western classics

Adam Smith:The Wealth of Nations, Book I, Chapter XI, Paragraph 573

Adam Smith《The Wealth of Nations》· Book I, Chapter XI · Investing

That that increase in the quantity of the precious metals, which arises in any country from the increase of wealth, has no tendency to diminish their value, I have endeavoured to shew already. Gold and silver naturally resort to a rich country, for the same reason that all sorts of luxuries and curiosities resort to it; not because they are cheaper there than in poorer countries, but because they are dearer, or because a better price is given for them. It is the superiority of price which attracts them; and as soon as that superiority ceases, they necessarily cease to go thither.

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3300
Book I, Chapter XI, paragraph 573

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17:00 Evening · Career · Chinese classics

王阳明:Chuanxilu, 卷上 47

王阳明《傳習錄》· 卷上·第47条 · Leadership · Philosophy · Health · Cognition

「『夜氣』,是就常人說。學者能用功,則日間有事、無事,皆是此氣翕聚發生處。聖人則不消說『夜氣』。」

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卷上·第47条

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21:00 Figures · Career · Entrepreneur memoirs

Henry Ford:My Life and Work, Excerpt 75

Henry Ford《My Life and Work》· Chapter VII · Leadership

No particular consideration has to be given to deaf-and-dumb employees. They do their work one hundred per cent. The tubercular employees--and there are usually about a thousand of them--mostly work in the material salvage department. Those cases which are considered contagious work together in an especially constructed shed. The work of all of them is largely out of doors.

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Chapter VII, excerpt 75

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