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Brett Ryan Bonowicz
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“He once told an interviewer, “I’m impatient with the past and irritable with the present. The future is where my concern lies, and I’m very optimistic about it.”
― With Tomorrow in Mind: How Athelstan Spilhaus Turned America Toward the Future
― With Tomorrow in Mind: How Athelstan Spilhaus Turned America Toward the Future
“Voltaire said about God that ‘there is no God, but don’t tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night’.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.”
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
― Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
“Only the lower natures forget themselves and become something new. For instance, the butterfly has entirely forgotten that it was a caterpillar; perhaps in turn it can forget that it was a butterfly so completely that it can become a fish. The”
― Fear and Trembling
― Fear and Trembling
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
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Brett Ryan’s 2025 Year in Books
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266 books
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265 books
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785 books
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608 books
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