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Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John Gray
Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriad creatures as straw dogs.
- Lao Tzu
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Presentation Zen by Garr Reynolds
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Leonardo da Vinci
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Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
Revolution is not a dinner party.
- Mao Zedong
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Average is Over by Tyler Cowen
I would bring a hammer.
— Chess grandmaster Jan Hein Donner, when asked what strategy he would use against a computer
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The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
We receive and we lose, and we must try to achieve gratitude; and with that gratitude to embrace with whole hearts whatever of life that remains after the losses.
- ANDRE DUBUS II, Broken Vessels
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Me, Myself and Why by Jennifer Ouellette
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
- G. K. CHESTERTON, “THE LOGIC OF ELFLAND,” Orthodoxy (1908)
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