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Darian is Currently Reading

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Burn: New Research Blows the Lid Off How We Really Burn Calories, Stay Healthy, and Lose Weight

by Herman Pontzer

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Blowout

by Rachel Maddow (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, nonfiction, politics, history, economics

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King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution—A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

by Scott Anderson

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Darian’s Quotes

“[A] person's life comes to an end just as they are preparing to enjoy it.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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“The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights,”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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“[W]e do not receive a short life, but we make it a short one, and we are not poor in days, but wasteful of them . . . We live only a small part of our lives.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, On the Shortness of Life

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