Tim Adank

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Michael Jordan: The Life

by Roland Lazenby (Goodreads Author)

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The Escape (John Puller, #3)

by David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)

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Tim’s Quotes

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”
― Dean Martin

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“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
― Michael Jordan

tags: michael-jordan, strength, weakness

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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
― Atwood H. Townsend

tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: strategy

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