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Mark Twain on Religion and Our Human Egotism
Mark Twain on Religion and Our Human Egotism

“The human race … sits up nine nights in the week to admire its own originality.”

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In Pursuit of the Extraordinary: Anaïs Nin Reads from Her Famous Diaries
In Pursuit of the Extraordinary: Anaïs Nin Reads from Her Famous Diaries

“Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. … I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist.”

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What George Eliot Teaches Us About the Life-Cycle of Happiness and the Science of Why We’re Happier When We’re Older
What George Eliot Teaches Us About the Life-Cycle of Happiness and the Science of Why We’re Happier When We’re Older

“One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.”

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Make Art, Make Money, and Believe the Beard: What Jim Henson Teaches Us about Bridging Creative Integrity and Commercial Success
Make Art, Make Money, and Believe the Beard: What Jim Henson Teaches Us about Bridging Creative Integrity and Commercial Success

“What is a human being? Complex to the point of absurdity, a whole person is both greedy and generous.”

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Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All
Henry Builds a Cabin: Thoreau’s Joyfully Minimalist Life at Walden, Illustrated for Kids and Full of Wisdom for All

“Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think they must have such a one as their neighbors have.”

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Brave Genius: How the Unlikely Friendship of Scientist Jacques Monod and Philosopher Albert Camus Shaped Modern Culture
Brave Genius: How the Unlikely Friendship of Scientist Jacques Monod and Philosopher Albert Camus Shaped Modern Culture

“Being aware of one’s life, one’s revolt, one’s freedom, and to the maximum, is living, and to the maximum.”

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Masefield’s “On Growing Old”
F. Scott Fitzgerald Reads John Masefield’s “On Growing Old”

A poignant meditation on life’s true satisfactions.

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Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life
Milton Glaser on Art, Technology, and the Secret of Life

“You learn more and more that everything exists at once with its opposite, so the contradictions of life are never-ending and somehow the mediation between these opposites is the game of life.”

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The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection
The Science and Philosophy of Friendship: Lessons from Aristotle on the Art of Connection

“Friends hold a mirror up to each other; through that mirror they can see each other in ways that would not otherwise be accessible to them, and it is this mirroring that helps them improve themselves as persons.”

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Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad
Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad

“A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.”

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