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“To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
“He emphasized that you should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.”
― Steve Jobs
― Steve Jobs
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
― Dune
― Dune
“Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.” The”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses, live inside the body of their hosts. They multiply and spread from one host to the other, feeding off their hosts, weakening them, and sometimes even killing them. As long as the hosts live long enough to pass along the parasite, it cares little about the condition of its host. In just this fashion, cultural ideas live inside the minds of humans. They multiply and spread from one host to another, occasionally weakening the hosts and sometimes even killing them.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Jyoti’s 2025 Year in Books
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