Go for broke is a phrase from Hawaiian Pidgin meaning “to wager everything”. It was the motto of a World War II Japanese-American military unit, the 442nd Infantry Regiment. Go for broke or going for broke. Source: Wikipedia. My teacher used to say that in life you have three choices: 1) Give up 2) Give in […]
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Maktub
posted by Daily Post from Bluxome Street
Book club is coming up and I am quickly reading The Alchemist. There are many wonderful concepts put forward in the book, one of which is: Maktub. Maktub means, it is written. “Determinism is the philosophical view that, given certain initial conditions, everything that ensues is bound to happen as it does and in no other possible […]
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