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Character formation began early, with family games of tossing naked children into the snow.
“We learn a great deal from our failures in math and science.”
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
“Procrastination is like addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality.”
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
― A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
“The advice that you must change your environment—for example, by eliminating negative people and news—is an admission that there may in fact be a “real world” out there that is utterly unaffected by our wishes. In the face of this terrifying possibility, the only “positive” response is to withdraw into one’s own carefully constructed world of constant approval and affirmation, nice news, and smiling people.”
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“Though politicians are regarded as scum, government as a machine is held to be almost infallible.”
― The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
― The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
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Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.”
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Mary’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mary’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
46 books
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35 friends
411 books
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69 friends
173 books
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84 friends
45 books
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21 friends
704 books
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28 friends
1,004 books
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272 friends
6 books
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83 friends
2 books
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16 friends
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