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How to Read a Book: the classic guide to intelligent reading

by Mortimer J. Adler

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

by Ray Kurzweil

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How To Be Your Own Bodyguard by Nick Hughes

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It never made much sense to me to see guys buying guns and going to the range with the excuse that it was for self-defense when the same guy is 100 pounds overweight, smoking two packets of cigarettes a day and eating a diet of fried food, ...more

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“The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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“It seems a thousand years since I’ve seen you but I’ve been dreaming of you ever since. Now I’ve found you again I absolutely refuse to let you go.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Contraband

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“A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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“Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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“The gods are being kind to me in my old age. Most beautiful women are either good, stupid or vicious. And you are the marvellous exception. Lovely as a goddess, clever as an Athenian and a bad hat like myself, yet one who still has decent feelings. I’m going to kiss the lips off you once we land in France.”
― Dennis Wheatley, Contraband

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