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A Closed and Common Orbit (Wayfarers, #2)

by Becky Chambers (Goodreads Author)

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The Pillow Book

by Sei Shōnagon

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Ok, Pandora

by Consuelo López

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“The crises we face are systemic in nature. To overcome those crises we need to understand how systems work. To arrive at such an understanding we need to think systemically.”
― Ludwig Von Bertalanffy, General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications

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“The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

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“We know that the war against intelligence is always waged in the name of common sense.”
― Roland Barthes, Mythologies

tags: common-sense, feeling, intelligence, smarts

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“Ninety percent of all problems are caused by people being assholes.”
“What causes the other ten percent?” asked Kizzy.
“Natural disasters,” said Nib.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

tags: assholes

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“Classical science, the mythical science of a simple, passive world, belongs to the past, killed not by philosophical criticism or empiricist resignation but by the internal development of science itself.”
― Ilya Prigogine, Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature

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