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The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

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The Infinite Game

by Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)

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The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution

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Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare.”
― Angela Duckworth, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

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“Love all, trust a few,
Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well

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“We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours. And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.”
― Franz Kafka

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