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“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.” The day will never arrive when you finally have everything under control—when the flood of emails has been contained; when your to-do lists have stopped getting longer; when you’re meeting all your obligations at work and in your home life; when nobody’s angry with you for missing a deadline or dropping the ball; and when the fully optimized person you’ve become can turn, at long last, to the things life is really supposed to be about. Let’s start by admitting defeat: none of this is ever going to happen. But you know what? That’s excellent news.”
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
― Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.”
― Unseen Academicals
― Unseen Academicals
“Then the applied mathematician comes along and ruins everything by making topology useful.”
― Math Without Numbers
― Math Without Numbers
“The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“That was messages without meaning: telepathy without brains.”
― The Fifth Elephant
― The Fifth Elephant
J.R.R. Tolkien
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Ukrainian literature
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