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The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)

by Joe Abercrombie

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Human Acts

by Han Kang

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RNA, the Epicenter of Genetic Information

by John Mattick

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Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

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I only wanted to advise you also, to grow quietly and seriously throughout your development too; you cannot disturb it more violently than if you look to the outside and from the outside expect a response to questions that only your ...more

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“How terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that they get used to something as extraordinary as living.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Solitaire Mystery

tags: life, living

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“There’s a crack (or cracks) in everyone…that’s how the light of God gets in.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
― Anatole France

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“We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work”
― Thomas A. Edison

tags: laziness, opportunity, work

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“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot
learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.
Only the person who risks is truly free.”
― Leo Buscaglia

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