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“No matter what they wish for, no matter how far they go, people can never be anything but themselves”
― Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
― Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami
“This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom – we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
“We are all of us more complicated than the roles we are assigned in the stories other people tell”
― Educated
― Educated
“We don’t succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“I worry that education is becoming a stick that some people use to beat other people into submission, or becoming something that people feel arrogant about. I think education is really just a process of self-discovery—of developing a sense of self and what you think. I think of it as this great mechanism of connecting and equalizing.”
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