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“Maybe it's not really lying if you barely know you're doing it. It should be true. It's the way it should be, in an ideal world.”
― Alys, Always
― Alys, Always
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
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“The harder survival becomes, the more you want to pull together. And the more you want to pull together, the harder survival becomes.”
― The 5th Wave
― The 5th Wave
“Being forced to confront the prospect of failure head-on—to study it, dissect it, tease apart all its components and consequences—really works. After a few years of doing that pretty much daily, you’ve forged the strongest possible armor to defend against fear: hard-won competence.
Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we’re trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what’s going wrong, then fix it.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Our training pushes us to develop a new set of instincts: instead of reacting to danger with a fight-or-flight adrenaline rush, we’re trained to respond unemotionally by immediately prioritizing threats and methodically seeking to defuse them. We go from wanting to bolt for the exit to wanting to engage and understand what’s going wrong, then fix it.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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