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The Age of Cryptocurrency: How Bitcoin and Digital Money Are Challenging the Global Economic Order
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But if we’ve learned anything since the arrival of the Internet, it’s that technology does not wait for us to catch up.
“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”
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“Suffering is the noblest art, the quieter the better.”
― Native Speaker
― Native Speaker
“He handed her a plastic container of dried fruit Loreen had packed for the trip to use as a steering wheel so she could practice matching the turns....Fan's arms began to ache from holding up the container but she was beginning to enjoy herself, too, feeling an unlikely liberty and exhilaration, which if you think about it, can be seen as a good approximation of this life, where control is more believed than actual.”
― On Such a Full Sea
― On Such a Full Sea
“He said you could tell about a person not from what he believed, but by what worried him.”
― Native Speaker
― Native Speaker
“We have to wonder what this might suggest about the relationship between the public realm and private lives in our settlement.
Some have proposed that we need to do more in encouraging individual interests and pursuits, even if they don't appear terribly useful or practical, to bolster and deepen those inner reserves that "make" a person into who she is, and how, by extension, she identifies and values herself. Other, more conservative, voices balk at this, countering that we need, in fact, to strengthen the bonds of the commune, so that to end one's own life would be tantamount to a grievous assault on us all.... But if we calm ourselves and open our eyes and step back far enough, we have to admit that our society, if not fundamentally unwell, has been profoundly wounded.”
― On Such a Full Sea
Some have proposed that we need to do more in encouraging individual interests and pursuits, even if they don't appear terribly useful or practical, to bolster and deepen those inner reserves that "make" a person into who she is, and how, by extension, she identifies and values herself. Other, more conservative, voices balk at this, countering that we need, in fact, to strengthen the bonds of the commune, so that to end one's own life would be tantamount to a grievous assault on us all.... But if we calm ourselves and open our eyes and step back far enough, we have to admit that our society, if not fundamentally unwell, has been profoundly wounded.”
― On Such a Full Sea
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