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title: Week 43, 2026
created: 2026-10-25
modified: 2026-10-28
issue: 147
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# Wisdom I Pondered This Week

* “Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.” — Napoleon Hill
* “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” — Thomas Jefferson
* [“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always.” — Mahatma Gandhi](http://goodreads.com/quotes/739-when-i-despair-i-remember-that-all-through-history-the)
* “Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.” — Roy T. Bennett
* “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.” — Leonard Bernstein

# Things I Learned This Week

* [Keeping up with the Joneses](https://www.google.com/search?q=Keeping+up+with+the+Joneses) means trying to match the wealth, social status, or material possessions of your neighbors or friends.
* [瓊漿玉液](https://www.google.com/search?q=瓊漿玉液)：原指古代神話中，用美玉製成、喝了可以成仙的漿液。現用來比喻香醇的美酒或甘美的汁液。
* **New Money** is a social class of the rich whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation, rather than by familial inheritance. ↔ **Old Money (上流社會)**
* [Belt-and-braces](https://www.google.com/search?q=Belt-and-braces) (雙保險) is a British idiom that means using two or more extra safety actions to be very careful, even when only one action is enough.
* A [silver lining](https://www.google.com/search?q=silver+lining)【(逆境或不幸中的) 一點慰藉、一線希望】is a hopeful, positive aspect or advantage that comes out of a difficult, unpleasant, or unfortunate situation.