Saqib Zamir

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“Nature, habit, and teaching,鈥� says Aristotle, 鈥渁re all needed.鈥� Because flourishing, you see, doesn鈥檛 just require us to identify and then acquire all of these virtues鈥攊t requires that we have every one in the exact right amount. We have to be generous but not too generous, courageous but not too courageous, and so on.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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“Lost faith is worse than no faith at all, because it leaves behind a gaping hole, much like the hollow that the Spirit left when it abandoned this accursed world. But by their very nature, those god-shaped voids demand to be filled with something as precious as that which was lost. The choice of that something鈥攊f indeed it is a choice at all鈥攔ules the destiny of men.”
― Benjam铆n Labatut, The MANIAC

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“When someone suffocates you with what they believe is love, even as you feel your air supply being cut off, you at least feel embraced.”
― Lisa Taddeo, Animal

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“In our culture of multitasking, according to Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University, 鈥淭he neural circuits devoted to scanning, skimming, and multitasking are expanding and strengthening, while those used for reading and thinking deeply, with sustained concentration, are weakening or eroding.鈥�5”
― Sean Covey, The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

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“Ehrenfest sought relentlessly what he called der springende Punkt, the leaping point, the heart of the matter, as for him deriving a result by logical means was never enough: 鈥淭hat is like dancing on one leg,鈥� he would say, 鈥渨hen the essence lies in recognizing connections, meanings and associations in every direction.鈥� For Ehrenfest, true understanding was a full-body experience, something that involved your entire being, not just your mind or reason.”
― Benjam铆n Labatut, The MANIAC

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