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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)

by J.K. Rowling

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Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

by Chris van Tulleken

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Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food… and Why Can't We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken

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This is the new system of industrial food production. In this system we are the prey, the source of the money that powers the system. The competition for that money, which drives increasing complexity and innovation, occurs between an ...more

The Psychology of Money

by Morgan Housel

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Alejandra’s Quotes

“Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .”
― Mario Puzo, The Godfather

tags: greatness

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“One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: philosophy, science

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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: equanimity, future, inspirational, reason, stoic, stoicism, worry

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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

tags: books, life, limits

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“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

tags: brave-new-world, hunger, thirst, yearning

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