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The Year of Living Danishly: Uncovering the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country

by Helen Russell

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read in February 2018

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Feb 09, 2023 06:14AM

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“Work fast."
"Yeah." I point at the screen. "First I have to wait for my computer to wake up."
"Hurry."
"Okay, I'll wait faster."
"Sarcasm.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

tags: humor, sarcasm

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“Oh thank God. I can’t imagine explaining “sleep” to someone who had never heard of it. Hey, I’m going to fall unconscious and hallucinate for a while. By the way, I spend a third of my time doing this. And if I can’t do it for a while, I go insane and eventually die. No need for concern.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

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“I reflect that if we are going to be asked to risk our lives, the least we can expect is to be treated like people.”
― Dominic Pimenta, Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis

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“with the proper information and rationale, which it is my job to provide, people have a nearly limitless capacity to adapt and to rise to the occasion, whether for themselves or their family members.”
― Dominic Pimenta, Duty of Care: One NHS Doctor's Story of the COVID-19 Crisis

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“This,” James said, when he had disappeared. “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune—often the surfeit of our own behavior—we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars … as if we were villains on necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting-on!”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

tags: if-we-were-villains, james, oliver

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