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Shivanand Velmurugan

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The Tales of Beedle the Bard

by J.K. Rowling

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Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

by Charles T. Munger

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The 48 Laws of Power

by Robert Greene (Goodreads Author)

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Shivanand’s Notes & Highlights

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

18 notes & 87 highlights

simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.

Wool (Wool, #1)

by Hugh Howey

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Shivanand’s Quotes

“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: complex, hard, simple, thinking, truth, wisdom, worth

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“Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

tags: truth

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“A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

tags: despair, existentialism, future, hopelessness

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