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Bryan is Currently Reading

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Metallica and Philosophy: A Crash Course in Brain Surgery (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)

by William Irwin

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Bloody Buna: The Battle for the Beachhead New Guinea 1942

by David W. Cameron

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Bryan’s Quotes

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom

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“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius

tags: futility, knowledge, religion

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“Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts!”
― Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius

tags: inspirational

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“No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

tags: andrew-wiggin, ender, ender-wiggin, life-lessons

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