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Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise

by K. Anders Ericsson

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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

by Gavin de Becker

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How the Body Knows Its Mind: The Surprising Power of the Physical Environment to Influence How You Think and Feel

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Shann’s Quotes

“Loki was not evil, although he was certainly not a force for good. Loki was . . . complicated.”
― Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology

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“I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street.”
― Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays

tags: chance, death, destiny, life

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“[A] right understanding that death is nothing
to us makes the mortality of life enjoyable, not because it adds to it
an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for
immortality. For there is nothing terrible in life for the man who has
truly comprehended that there is nothing terrible in not living.”
― Epicurus

tags: death, mortality

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“Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter.”
― Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper

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“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: chance, fear, life, self-confidence, self-reliance

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