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The Book of Hope:...
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"“I think it's also important to remember that while statistics can be helpful, people are moved to action by stories more than statistics. So many people thank me for not putting statistics in my lectures!”

Hell yeah Jane 🔥🔥"
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Chronicle of a De...
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"“all the many people he ran into after leaving his house at five minutes past six and until he was carved up like a pig an hour later remembered him as being a little sleepy but in a good mood, and he remarked to all of them in a casual way that it was a very beautiful day.”

Okay the man knows how to start a book"
Oct 03, 2025 02:13PM

 
Water
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"“We are free of gripes, free of nagging thoughts and delusions,
raucous laughter is here,
parrots drunk on celestial honey.

A stroke of magic that we are here,
while breathing the air of Baghdad's orchards,
while breathing the air of Khorasan's streams, you and me.”

Forcing myself to be slow with this book since we’ll probably have to wait 3 more years for the next set of translations lol"
Oct 04, 2025 07:39PM

 
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I should still give you a very quick primer about our health-care system; unlike an intern’s first day on the wards, I won’t drop you in the deep end, breeze off, and expect you to know exactly what’s going on. The NHS was founded on the ...more
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.
“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
John Steinbeck, East of Eden

David Foster Wallace
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

David Foster Wallace
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.”
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

Marcel Proust
“The only true voyage of discovery . . . would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.”
Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

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