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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

by Daron Acemoğlu

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“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”
― Socrates

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“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.”
― Benjamin Franklin

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“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life--to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

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