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Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories By Franz Kafka

by Franz Kafka

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Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli

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For Aristotle, physics works as follows: first, it is necessary to distinguish between the heavens and Earth. In the heavens, everything is made up of a crystalline substance that moves in a circular motion and turns eternally around Earth ...more

Aristotle's elemental theory

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Sam’s Quotes

“She would of been a good woman,” The Misfit said, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

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“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“The apparent determinism of the macroscopic world is due only to the fact that the microscopic randomness cancels out on average, leaving only fluctuations too minute for us to perceive in everyday life.”
― Carlo Rovelli, Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity

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“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. Even we psychiatrists expect the reactions of a man to an abnormal situation, such as being committed to an asylum, to be abnormal in proportion to the degree of his normality.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way —an honorable way—in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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