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“And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.”
― Evermore
― Evermore
“Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.”
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“If you have more than one reason to do something (choose a doctor or veterinarian, hire a gardener or an employee, marry a person, go on a trip), just don’t do it. It does not mean that one reason is better than two, just that by invoking more than one reason you are trying to convince yourself to do something. Obvious decisions (robust to error) require no more than a single reason.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“Few understand that procrastination is our natural defense, letting things take care of themselves and exercise their antifragility; it results from some ecological or naturalistic wisdom, and is not always bad -- at an existential level, it is my body rebelling against its entrapment. It is my soul fighting the Procrustean bed of modernity.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
“The irony of the process of thought control: the more energy you put into trying to control your ideas and what you think about, the more your ideas end up controlling you.”
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
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Biography, Crime, Memoir, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self help, Spirituality, and Travel
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