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“Happiness is so awfully complicated, but freedom isn’t. You’re either tied down or you’re not.”
“If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine.”
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“It takes energy to get angry. It eats you up inside. I can't waste my energy like that and expect to get ahead. When they left, it took everything I had in me just to survive. Now I have to stay focused. I've just gotta take care of it myself' Joe Rantz”
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
― The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
“Lincoln's ability to retain his emotional balance in such difficult situations was rooted in actute self-awareness and an enormous capacity to dispel anxiety in constructive ways.”
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“When the facts change, I change my mind,” the economist John Maynard Keynes famously said. “What do you do, sir?”
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
― The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
“A thousand years from now nobody is
going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.”
― The Past Never Ends
going to know that you or I ever lived. The cynic is
right, but lazy. He says ‘You live, you die and nothing you do will ever make a difference.’ But as long as I live, I’m going to be like Beethoven and shake my fist at fate and try to do something for those who live here now and who knows how far into the future that will go. If I accomplish nothing more than making my arm sore, at least I will be satisfied that I have lived.”
― The Past Never Ends
Audrey’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Audrey’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
482 books
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87 friends
61 books
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58 friends
876 books
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132 friends
1,544 books
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193 friends
287 books
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64 friends
341 books
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313 friends
15 books
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17 friends
146 books
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47 friends
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