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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)

by Edmund Morris

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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)

by Hilary Mantel

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“Save for the occasional use of cocaine, he had no vices, and he only turned to the drug as a protest against the monotony of existence when cases were scanty and the papers uninteresting.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection

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“Morality doesn’t mean ‘following divine commands’. It means ‘reducing suffering’. Hence in order to act morally, you don’t need to believe in any myth or story. You just need to develop a deep appreciation of suffering.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

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“Words are loneliness. I left a couple of words for you on the tablecloth last night—you covered them with your elbows.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

tags: diabetes, sugar, violence, war

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