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Quotes I think about often:

• “I noticed how people stood up a little straighter, and saw themselves differently, when they learned that their voices mattered. ” – Barack Obama
• “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.” – 1984, George Orwell
• “Self-sacrifice? But it is precisely the self that cannot and must not be sacrificed.” – The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
• If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything in it”. – If, Rudyard Kipling
• Slow down, you crazy child. And take the phone off the hook, and disappear for a while. It’s all right, you can afford go lose a day or two, ooh when will you realize Vienna waits for you? – Vienna waits for you, Billy Joel
• If you could heal a broken heart, wouldn’t time be out to charm you? – November Rain, Guns & Roses
• “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” – Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas

Favorite books:

1. The Fountainhead
2. 1984
3. Crime and Punishment
4. Just Kids
5. The Brothers Karamazov
6. Trust
7. The Body Keeps the Score
8. The Three Body Problem/ The Dark Forest/ Death’s End trilogy
9. Kite Runner
10. All the Light we cannot see
11. Born a Crime
12. Patriot (Alexei Navalny)
13. A Little Life
14. Why Fish Don’t Exist
15. Things in Nature Merely Grow

Favorite blog: Slate Star Codex