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The Anarchist Cookbook

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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

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Eris’s Quotes

“Before there is science, there are stories to explain the world. They make it happier somehow.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

tags: happiness, storytelling, the-world-around-us

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“The only good cage is an empty cage.”
― Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer

tags: animal-rights, animals, wildlife

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“To escape responsibility for violence we imagine it is enough to pledge never to be the first to do violence. But no one ever sees himself as casting the first stone. Even the most violent persons believe that they are always reacting to a violence committed in the first instance by someone else.”
― Rene Girard, The One by Whom Scandal Comes

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“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is decoupling from consciousness. 3. Non-conscious but highly intelligent algorithms may soon know us better than we know ourselves.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“Love is not weakness. It's the bravest act of our lives.”
― Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

tags: bravery, commitment, inspirational, love, strong-men, strong-women

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