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They had to appreciate the idea that the values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
“He shakes the water from his hair, spraying droplets in every direction, and I throw any and every cuss word I can think of in his direction. He laughs, eyes sparkling with delight in being on the receiving end of my temper. It only serves to make me angrier.”
― Metal Slinger
― Metal Slinger
“We sat down and tried to figure out what is the insult that would go to the heart of an eighteen-to-twenty-year-old’s brain,” Cohen says. “It didn’t take too long to come up with ‘asshole.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“She has beautiful eyes,” he says softly, like he’s lost to memory. “They’re brown and green and amber, like every color of every season. I’ve looked everywhere for eyes like hers, and nothing has ever been able to compare.”
― Metal Slinger
― Metal Slinger
“Show me the runway!” the pilot cried out, hoping desperately that he was close enough to Kennedy to somehow glide his crippled plane to a safe landing. But Kennedy was sixteen miles away.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“The “culture of honor” hypothesis says that it matters where you’re from, not just in terms of where you grew up or where your parents grew up, but in terms of where your great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents grew up and even where your great-great-great-grandparents grew up. That is a strange and powerful fact. It’s just the beginning, though, because upon closer examination, cultural legacies turn out to be even stranger and more powerful than that.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
Gail’s 2025 Year in Books
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450 books
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40 books
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260 books
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1,597 books
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299 books
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