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without a destination. It was oddly hard to imagine moving over large distances without an aim, without a somewhere at the end. Your destination might be a thousand miles away, but it pulled like a magnetic force. It was your purpose, your
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“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Confucius and you are both dreams, and I who say you are dreams am a dream myself. This is a paradox. Tomorrow a wise man may explain it; that tomorrow will not be for ten thousand generations. — CHUANG TSE: II”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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321 friends
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147 books
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287 books
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1 book
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17 books
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1 book
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12 friends
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