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Shaleen is Currently Reading

Shaleen is currently reading

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

by Kim Malone Scott (Goodreads Author)

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Shaleen’s Notes & Highlights

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

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Shaleen’s Quotes

“Since the mathematicians have grabbed hold of the theory of relativity, I myself no longer understand it.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

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“Very few of us are what we seem.”
― Agatha Christie, The Man in the Mist

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“...there occurred to me the simple epitaph which, when I am no more, I intend to have inscribed on my tombstone. It was this:
"He was a man who acted from the best motives. There is one born every minute.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

tags: humorous-quotations, insightful

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“What do you think of Adolf Hitler?” Einstein replied, “He is living on the empty stomach of Germany. As soon as economic conditions improve, he will no longer be important.”
― Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe

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“...there's something in science like the shine of the Patronus Charm, driving back all sorts of darkness and madness...”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

tags: science

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