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“If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
― This Child Will Be Great: Memoir of a Remarkable Life by Africa's First Woman President
“Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle physics explicitly permitted possibilities like molecular nanotechnology or the Penrose process for extracting energy from black holes, most people filed that away in the same section of their brain that stored fairy tales and history books, well away from their personal realities: Long ago and far away, ever so long ago.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
― Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
― The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
“Death is a great tragedy…a profound loss…I don’t accept it…I think people are kidding themselves when they say they are comfortable with death.”
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LessWrong
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Lectura en Català
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Encara que siguem pocs en comparació, els catalans estem orgullosos dels nostres llibres i la nostra llengua. Aquí recomanarem llibres en català i par ...more
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