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Directionality of Humankind's Development. History

by Victor Torvich

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

by Robert M. Sapolsky

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Asif’s Quotes

“Literature is humanity talking to itself.”
― Norman Rush

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“your life will not end with death. You are Immortal. You were always there and you always will be.”
― Zain Hashmi, A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories

tags: death, immortal, islam, life, spirituality, sufi

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“A promise to love someone forever, then, means, 'As long as I love you I will render unto you the actions of love; if I no longer love you, you will continue to receive the same actions from me, if for other motives.' Thus the illusion remains in the minds of one's fellow men that the love is unchanged and still the same.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Aphorisms on Love and Hate

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“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois

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“I don't believe the cure for loneliness is meeting someone, not necessarily. I think it's about two things: learning how to befriend yourself and understanding that many of the things that seem to afflict us as individuals are in fact a result of larger forces of stigma and exclusion, which can and should be resisted.”
― Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

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