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“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
― Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Buddah says once you understand that you are lost and you have to find your own way and there is no help coming, you become responsible. Prayer is irresponsible. To pray is just to avoid responsibility, to pray is to be lazy. To pray is just an escape. Buddha says effort is needed. It is an insult to pray.”
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“The goal of any self-respecting human being tolerant of others is to favor anything that increases a person's ability to control her own fate, and at the very least maintain sovereignty over her own body.”
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“Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.”
― Seven Types of Ambiguity
― Seven Types of Ambiguity
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.”
― How the Water Feels to the Fishes
― How the Water Feels to the Fishes
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