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Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress―and How to Bring It Back

by Marc J. Dunkelman

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Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future

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Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman

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Where 84% of the world’s population still lived in extreme poverty in 1820, by 1981 that percentage had dropped to 44%, and now, just a few decades later, it is under 10%.

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“آنچه هنوز تلخ ترین پوزخند مرا برمی انگیزد "چیزی شدن" از دیدگاه آنهاست. آنها میخواهند ما را در قالب های فلزی خود جای دهند. آنها با اعداد کوچک به ما حمله میکنند. آنها با صفر مطلقشان به جنگ عمیق ترین و جاذب ترین رویاها می آیند.”
― نادر ابراهیمی, بار دیگر شهری که دوست می‌داشتم

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“I may be going nowhere, but what a ride.”
― Shaun Hick

tags: destiny, distance, journey, life, life-s-journey, living-in-the-moment, nowhere, purpose, ride, seize-the-day, spontaneity, travel

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“If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan

tags: inspirational, inspiring, life, real, relatable

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“Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Forest House

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