Manish Sinha

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A True Kill (Garrett Mann #3)

by Steven Konkoly (Goodreads Author)

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Jul 26, 2026 12:11PM

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Veranthos Gambit (Old Colony Book 2)

by John Walker

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Book cover for The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living by Ryan Holiday

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The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not.

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“Those people who post pictures of their dinner on Facebook, only to be disappointed by the lack of “likes” from friends, are simply trying to appeal to the wrong audience. If there were such a thing as Facebug (Facebook for microbes!), a picture of your dinner would provoke an excited response from millions of users—and shudders of disgust from millions more. The menu changes daily: useful milk digesters contained in a cheese sandwich, armies of Salmonella bacteria hiding in a delicious dish of tiramisu.”
― Giulia Enders, Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ

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“A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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“Despite its reputation, Appalachia—especially northern Alabama and Georgia to southern Ohio—has far lower church attendance than the Midwest, parts of the Mountain West, and much of the space between Michigan and Montana. Oddly enough, we think we attend church more than we actually do. In a recent Gallup poll, Southerners and Midwesterners reported the highest rates of church attendance in the country. Yet actual church attendance is much lower in the South.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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“They want us to be shepherds to these kids. But no one wants to talk about the fact that many of them are raised by wolves.” I”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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“interviews showed me that successful people are playing an entirely different game. They don’t flood the job market with résumés, hoping that some employer will grace them with an interview. They network. They email a friend of a friend to make sure their name gets the look it deserves. They have their uncles call old college buddies. They have their school’s career service office set up interviews months in advance on their behalf. They have parents tell them how to dress, what to say, and whom to schmooze. That”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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