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“What’s new?” is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it’s always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.”
― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

“He who sees the past as surprise-free is bound to have a future full of surprises.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

“It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Several studies of thousands of British civil servants (the Whitehall studies) have found that workers who have little control over their jobs—meaning they have minimal say over what tasks are performed or how those tasks are carried out—have a significantly higher mortality rate than other workers in the civil service with more decision-making authority.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data

“co-workers. This discrimination also”
― Rose M. Spielman, Introduction to Psychology

“There is no such thing as worry that is completely defined by the individual; so-called internal worry does not exist. Whatever the worry that may arise, the shadows of other people are always present.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“The one who boasts does so only out of a feeling of inferiority.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“People with neurotic lifestyles tend to sprinkle their speech with such words as ‘everyone’ and ‘always’ and ‘everything’.”
― Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

“If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob