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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.”
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“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“The curse of computer scientists is our blessing, because this tacit knowledge represents the final frontier on which humans outperform machines. The jobs and endeavors that rely on tacit knowledge will be the last ones to be automated.”
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
― Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
“You will be interested to hear, Hilary, that it [the drug] had a most remarkable effect — even on Selena after a very modest quantity. She cast off all conventional restraints and devoted herself without shame to the pleasure of the moment."
I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct.
"She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.”
― The Shortest Way to Hades
I asked for particulars of this uncharacteristic conduct.
"She took from her handbag a paperback edition of Pride and Prejudice and sat on the sofa reading it, declining all offers of conversation.”
― The Shortest Way to Hades
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Celebrating the joys of Sarah Caudwell and her intrepid gang of barristers as they solve murders while evading the machinations of their law clerk, He ...more
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