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“Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.”
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
― An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
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“So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.”
― I Capture the Castle
― I Capture the Castle
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational
things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
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things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the
principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.”
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“I love my mother for all the times she said absolutely nothing.... Thinking back on it all, it must have been the most difficult part of mothering she ever had to do: knowing the outcome, yet feeling she had no right to keep me from charting my own path. I thank her for all her virtues, but mostly for never once having said, "I told you so.”
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