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“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it.”
― Man’s Search for Meaning
― Man’s Search for Meaning
“Anger begets more anger.”
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“Society is but a construct”
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“Valei-me Nossa Senhora,
Santo Antonio de Nazare,
A vaca mansa da leite,
A braba da si quise!”
― Macunaima
Santo Antonio de Nazare,
A vaca mansa da leite,
A braba da si quise!”
― Macunaima
“There are four laws. The third of them, the second law, was recognized first; the first, the zeroth law, was formulated last; the first law was second; the third law might not even be a law in the same sense as the others." P.W. Atkins on the laws of thermodynamics.”
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