“There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions
― The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions
“Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.”
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“I wish to go on living even after my death.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“become works of art so detailed, so precisely articulated”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”
― The United States Constitution
― The United States Constitution
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