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And yet, if you overcommit to your concept of who you are today, it closes you off to what you could become tomorrow. That’s the problem with just “doing you.” It doesn’t set you free. It keeps you frozen. It’s not self-awareness. It’s
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“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
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“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“War was a central theme in maths books too. School books - because the Taliban printed books soley for boys - did not calcualte in apples and cakes, but in bullets and kalasnikovs. Something like this: 'little Omar has a kalasnikov with three magazines. There are twenty bullets in each magazine. He uses two thirds of the bullets and kills sixty infidels does he kill with each bullet?”
― The Bookseller of Kabul
― The Bookseller of Kabul
“They played a game of dare - who could get closest to the flames?”
― The Bookseller of Kabul
― The Bookseller of Kabul
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