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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

by Mark Manson (Goodreads Author)

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“A jealous lover of human liberty, and deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
― Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State

tags: abolish, abolish-god, antitheism, atheism, humanity, liberty, respect, voltaire

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“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

tags: art, patience, time

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“I’m fundamentally a hopeful person, because I know that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it. Nothing about our situation is inevitable or immutable, but you can’t solve a problem with the consciousness that created it.”
― Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

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“To turn a decent young man into a piece of clockwork should not, surely, be seen as any triumph for any government, save one that boasts of its repressiveness.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

tags: alex-delarge, clockwork-orange, government-oppression

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“This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.”
― Joel Best, The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem

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