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Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

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Mate (Bride, #2)

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How to Listen to Jazz

by Ted Gioia

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Emily’s Quotes

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom

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“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

tags: goals, success

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

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