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Amir Nakar said:
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Feels unfair to review it as a book.But still.
I recommend anybody who lives in western culture, and especially anybody who is Jewish to read this once - from start to finish.
You will understand the culture better, you will get why is religion the way ...more "
“all ought to be common among friends.”
― Penguin Island
― Penguin Island
“t is quite important to find the best thing to do. It is much more important to find something to do. If I were a young artist, I would paint soap advertisements, if that were all opportunity offered, until I got ahead enough to indulge in the painting of madonnas and landscapes. If I were a young musician, I would rather play in a street band than not at all. If I were a young writer, I would do hack work, if necessary, until I became able to write the Great American Novel.
I would go to work. Nothing in all this world I have found is so good as work.”
― The Business of Life
I would go to work. Nothing in all this world I have found is so good as work.”
― The Business of Life
“This is no way to treat a book,” he said. “Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.”
― The Light Fantastic
― The Light Fantastic
“The important thing to remember about mathematics is not to be frightened”
― The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
― The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“He would have his plans take effect with the speed of fire”
― The Book of Chuang Tzu
― The Book of Chuang Tzu
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