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shishir is Currently Reading

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General Chemistry (Dover Books on Chemistry)

by Linus Pauling

bookshelves: physics, currently-reading

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Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications

by Ravindra K. Ahuja

bookshelves: currently-reading, computer-science, maths

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Principles and Techniques in Combinatorics

by Chuan Chong Chen

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shishir’s Quotes

“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology

tags: happiness, misery, money

189 likes

“Those who have never seen a leopard under favourable conditions in his natural surroundings can have no conception of the grace of movement, and beauty of colouring, of this the most gracefuL and the most beautiful of all animales in our Indian jungles.”
― Jim Corbett, Man-Eaters of Kumaon

tags: india, wildlife

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“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

tags: focusing-illusion

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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“It was as though the man-eater - for no other leopard would have killed the goat and laid it on the track- had said, 'Here, if you want your goat so badly, take it; and as it is now dark and you have a long way to go, we will see which of you lives to reach the village.”
― Jim Corbett, Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

tags: dark, leopard, maneater, threat

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