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Zach Gray

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Zach is Currently Reading

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The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Jan 02, 2025 06:52PM

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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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Zach’s Quotes

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that is wants to live humbly for one.”
― Wilhelm Stekel

tags: catcher-in-the-rye, immaturity, quoted, salinger, selflessness

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“The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

tags: inspirational, truth, zen

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“I can't go on, I'll go on.”
― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader

tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy

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“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration

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