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For most people, the happiness involved in receiving a desirable object is smaller than the unhappiness involved in losing the same object.”
The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
Being a fighter pilot—for that matter, simply taking off in a single-engine jet fighter of the Century series, such as an F–102, or any of the military’s other marvelous bricks with fins on them—presented a man, on a perfectly sunny day, with more ways to get himself killed than his wife and children could imagine in their wildest fears.
The Right Stuff
Tom Wolfe
Vetch had been three years at the School, and soon would be made sorcerer; he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
A Wizard of Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin
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