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Another re-read of my beloved LotR is complete. Favorite quote from this volume: "But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. Éowyn I am, Éomund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or d
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Perfection implied seriousness of purpose, and there were only a few purposes that seemed likely: to pursue scientific research, to help fend off some existential threat, to fulfill a religious need, or to serve as a piece of art. The last
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“Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness, possesses you. And in this materialistic age, a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.”
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“In a noisy place I can’t understand speech, because I cannot screen out the background noise.”
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
― Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
It matters that you don't just give up.”
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It matters that you don't just give up.”
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“It's OK to be an eccentric; it's not OK to be a rude and dirty eccentric.”
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“Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw a NASA scientist who had just found out that his project was canceled—a project he’d worked on for years. He was maybe sixty-five years old, and you know what? He was crying. And I thought, Good for him. That’s why he was able to reach retirement age working in a job he loved.”
― The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
― The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum
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