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Jenny (Reading Envy) Jenny (Reading Envy) said: " Reading this with a work group, one part a month, so this will linger a while and I'll just add some bits I marked.

"To unlock the joy of being wrong, we need to detach. I've learned that two kinds of detachment are especially useful: detaching your p
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"Work book club discussing part II today.

To me the biggest takeaway is the idea of strong yet fewer arguments if trying to win a debate - it runs counter to how the old LD debates were scored, where I'd lose points for every opposing point I didn't refute. But it was the same idea I was trying to communicate to my physical therapisit when he was trying to sell me on their services - less is more."
Feb 15, 2022 08:00AM

 
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When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention.
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How as your experience with the Book? it's been on my bookshelf for so long, but the mixed reviews keep pushing me away :(
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In some senses it feels like an exercise but I connected to it better this time around.
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This is a good read, but sad. Things have changed, things have remained the same.
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Virginia Woolf
“Literature is no one’s private ground, literature is common ground; let us trespass freely and fearlessly and find our own way for ourselves.”
Virginia Woolf

Carlos Ruiz Zafón
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.”
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Haruki Murakami
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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