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My wife’s father, a proudly religious man, suggested a compromise: Could he baptize Gus in our backyard instead? It was important for him to feel like our son was protected and looked after by God. We loved the idea, we thought it was a ...more
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“Losers, like autodidacts, always know much more than winners. If you want to win, you need to know just one thing and not to waste your time on anything else: the pleasures of erudition are reserved for losers. The more a person knows, the more things have gone wrong.”
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