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Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

by Foster Provost

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Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss by Sameet M. Kumar

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The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents

by Alexander Levy

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“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: adversity, beauty, empathy, people, understanding

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“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
― Dorothy Parker/Ellen Parr

tags: boredom, curiosity, misattributed, which-one-said-it

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“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
― Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

tags: depression, despair, loss, love

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“I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.”
― John Constable

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“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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