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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt

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“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
― Haruki Murakami, After Dark

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“Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Elephant Vanishes

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