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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

by Brian Christian (Goodreads Author)

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Pluto (1st) (Hindi Edition)

by गुलज़ार

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The Silent Intelligence - The Internet of Things

by Daniel Kellmereit

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“What would you do if you weren't afraid?”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

tags: business, career, inspirational, self-help, self-help-women, women

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“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, power-of-words

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“So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: love, making-love, pleasure, respect, sensuality, sex, touch

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“It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Herman Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: choices, focus, humility, judgement, judgemental, self, tolerance

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“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”
― Kahlil Gibran

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