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“I began to experience the most powerful advantage of money: the ability to think of things besides money.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Un homme est fait de choix et de circonstances. Personne n'a de pouvoir sur les circonstances, mais chacun en a sur ses choix.”
― Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, La Part de l'autre

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“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

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“Still, as I tend to repeat, I have some instinct for survival, for self-preservation. And believing you have such an instinct is almost as good as actually having it, because it means you act in the same way.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

tags: behavior, belief, julian-barnes, self-preservation, survival, survival-instinct, the-sense-of-an-ending

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“Believers favour answers over questions, clarity over uncertainty. Athiests, more or less the same. Funny, when it comes to God, Whom we know next to nothing about, very few of us actually say, 'I don't know.”
― Elif Shafak, Havva'nın Üç Kızı

tags: athiesm, god, religion

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