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Under standing has replaced fear, but it may be that the shadows of ancient mysteries remain, so that the sight of high mountains rekindles in a different guise the same feelings of awe which our remote ancestors had in their presence.
“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”
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“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”
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“I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it’s like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.”
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“If you need inspiration, don't do it.”
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The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
Salvi’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Salvi’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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