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The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig

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Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality

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Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems

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Franta said: " This is part of my MIT micro-economics education, which will help me in making better decisions in business and investing.
It gives you both the numbers as well as the stories. "

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“... those who have enough to spend on luxuries, yet fail to share even a tiny fraction of their income with the poor, must bear some responsibility for the deaths they could have prevented.”
― peter singer, Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter

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“Sapiens rule the world because only they can weave an intersubjective web of meaning: a web of laws, forces, entities and places that exist purely in their common imagination. This web allows humans alone to organise crusades, socialist revolutions and human rights movements.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“Get out of that comfortable rut.”
― Denis Waitley, The Psychology of Winning: Ten Qualities of a Total Winner

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“Words do have consequences, and what one generation says but does not really believe, the next generation may believe, and even act upon.”
― Peter Singer, Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

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“When we eat plants, food takes on a different quality. We take from the earth food that is ready for us and does not fight against us as we take it.”
― Peter Singer, Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement

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