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Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling

by Edgar H. Schein

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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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Tafseer As-Sadi 10 Volumes

by Abdur Rahman Nasir As-Sadi

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Abdulfattah’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific

The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific by Alistair Urquhart

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Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come.

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Abdulfattah’s Quotes

“If you want me to give you a two-hour presentation, I am ready today. If you want only a five-minute speech, it will take me two weeks to prepare.”
― Mark Twain

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“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

tags: baseball, basketball, david-halberstam, julius-erving, professionalism, sports, work-ethic, writing

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“But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.”
― Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power

tags: human-nature, power

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