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""Few of us today would think of wood splitting as anything but a tedious chore, but when one learns to do it well, there is a certain joy involved. Striking your axe in an exact spot, watching a log divide miraculously into segments and squares with single blows, or even learning to stack a simple pile of wood correctly, gives pleasure to the art of woodsmanship." pg. 31" — Dec 31, 2018 07:38AM
""Few of us today would think of wood splitting as anything but a tedious chore, but when one learns to do it well, there is a certain joy involved. Striking your axe in an exact spot, watching a log divide miraculously into segments and squares with single blows, or even learning to stack a simple pile of wood correctly, gives pleasure to the art of woodsmanship." pg. 31" — Dec 31, 2018 07:38AM
“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.”
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― The 36 Stratagems in Ancient China War: 三十六计
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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