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#1

“Eric has said that I carry close to my chest a ball of barbed wire that I sometimes throw at other people.”
― Weike Wang, Chemistry

tags: pain, relationships

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#2

“To sell something familiar, make it surprising. To sell something surprising, make it familiar.”
― Derek Thompson, Hit Makers: How Things Become Popular

tags: economics, marketing, marketing-advice, selling, selling-skills

12 likes

#3

“progress comes not only in great leaps but also from hundreds of small steps.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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#4

“So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.”
― Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

3799 likes

#5

“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.”
― David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

17 likes

#6

“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content with nothing more than a pencil and a napkin.”
― Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon

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#7

“I was just another sad, lost, lonely soul, wasting his life on a glorified videogame.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#8

“All the intervening layers slipped away, and I lost myself in the game within the game.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#9

“These three words were always the last thing an OASIS user saw before leaving the real world and entering the virtual one: READY PLAYER ONE”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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#10

“Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

tags: taoism, wu-wei

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#11

“Perfection comes at a sacrifice,”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

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#12

“Just because some people actually work for their money doesn’t mean they are beneath you.”
― Kevin Kwan, Crazy Rich Asians

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#13

“Everyone claims to be a billionaire these days. But you’re not really a billionaire until you spend your billions. —OVERHEARD AT THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

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#14

“I don’t understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It’s not like it’s a kidney!” Colette laughed.”
― Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend

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#15

“Sorrow is food swallowed too quickly, caught in the throat, making it nearly impossible to breathe.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

tags: grief, loss, mourning, pain, sorrow

116 likes

#16

“But I'm tired of coming out. All I ever do is come out. I try not to change, but I keep changing, in all these tiny ways. I get a girlfriend. I have a beer. And every freaking time, I have to reintroduce myself to the universe all over again.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: coming-out, glbt, simon-spier

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#17

“Why is straight the default? Everyone should have to declare one way or another, and it shouldn't be this big awkward thing whether you're straight, gay, bi, or whatever. I'm just saying.”
― Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

tags: glbt, simon-spier

1195 likes

#18

“Memory is subject to a filtering process that we don’t always recognize and can’t always control. We remember what we can bear and we block what we cannot.”
― Sue Grafton, X

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#19

“You can’t make someone else do anything, even if you know you’re right.”
― Sue Grafton, X

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#20

“Sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground, and start over. After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too. They start over. They find a way.”
― Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere

812 likes

#21

“A philosophy that cannot be lived is no philosophy at all.”
― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

tags: discipleship, introversion

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#22

“The Inklings were comrades who have been touched by war, who view life through the lens of war, yet who look for hope and found it, in fellowship, where so many other modern writers and intellectuals saw only broken narratives, disfigurement, and despair.”
― Philip Zaleski, The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams

tags: community, discipleship, relationships, resilience

2 likes

#23

“What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give

tags: black-lives-matter, racism

1675 likes

#24

“It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted. The power to hurt is a kind of wealth.”
― Naomi Alderman, The Power

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#25

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

tags: courage, vulnerability

763 likes

#26

“Therin lies the paradox of the profession,' Faraday said. 'Those who wish to have the job should not have it...and those who would most refuse to kill are the only ones who should.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe

tags: contest, death, neal-shusterman, scythe

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#27

“Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness…”
― Guillermo del Toro, The Strain

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#28

“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― Adam Silvera, They Both Die at the End

tags: comparison, dying, living, race, safety

726 likes

#29

“those may be exactly the people who pose the greatest threat to the system: the people who can still remember, with rancor and longing and the inevitable distortions of time, what things were like before.”
― Malka Ann Older, Infomocracy

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#30

“Sometimes you will hear leaders say, “I’m the only person who can hold this nation together.” If that’s true then that leader has truly failed to build their nation.’ That”
― Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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