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How to Fix the Future

by Andrew Keen (Goodreads Author)

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari

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100 Books You Must Read Before You Die - Volume 2 (The Greatest Writers of All Time)

by Rabindranath Tagore

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

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Countries such as Great Britain and the United States became rich because their citizens overthrew the elites who controlled power and created a society where political rights were much more broadly distributed, where the government was ...more

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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

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Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

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Umar’s Quotes

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: books, morality, reading

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“I was supposed to be having the time of my life.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

tags: literature, music, poetry

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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: beauty, enemies, friends, intellect, looks

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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: book, inspirational

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