Peter Smith

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Peter Smith

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Peter’s favorite books

A Theory Of Fun For Game Design by Ralph Koster

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

Y by Brian K. Vaughan

1984 by George Orwell

Rules of Play by Katie Salen Tekinbaş

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca

The Well-Played Game by Bernie DeKoven

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

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Peter’s Quotes

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

George Eliot

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational, misattributed, source-unknown

Socrates

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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Alfred Tennyson

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

Bernard M. Baruch

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

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