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“The sense of possibility so necessary for success comes not just from inside us or from our parents. It comes from our time: from the particular opportunities that our place in history presents us with.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched them end to end-they'd reach forever.”
― My Sister's Keeper
― My Sister's Keeper
“This is a class in American Literature and not an arena for extreme full-contact judo”
― Shared Sorrows
― Shared Sorrows
“Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.”
― The Bone Church
― The Bone Church
“We are narrow thinkers, we are noisy thinkers, and it is very easy to improve upon us.”
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
― Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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