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“The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them are great fun to write about if you' re a science fiction novelist, but neither of them ever happens in the real world. What happens in the real world is always a sideways-case scenario. World-changing marvels to us, are only wallpaper to our children.”
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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”
― Psychology and Alchemy
― Psychology and Alchemy
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
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“I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.”
― The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
― The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
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readers advisory for all
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