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“Twenty years later, “Day 1,” the name of the Amazon headquarters building, was still a rallying cry. “Day 2 is stasis,” he wrote in 2017. “Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.”
― The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
― The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos
“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Dune
― Dune
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
― Dune
― Dune
Aj’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Aj’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
663 books
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64 friends
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28 friends
150 books
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28 friends
4,369 books
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29 friends
55 books
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41 friends
219 books
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84 friends
83 books
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37 friends
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