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Kicking Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

by Ha-Joon Chang

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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931

by Adam Tooze

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Demons

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Sam’s Quotes

“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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“Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.”
― Edward R. Murrow

tags: attributed-no-source, indochina, viet-nam, vietnam, vietnam-war

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“The last capitalist we hang shall be the one who sold us the rope.”
― Karl Marx

tags: misattributed

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“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: lies, love, respect, self-deception, truth

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