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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms,
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
Because of the logical gap between reality and appearance, a gap we cannot close because knowledge of reality is always mediated by the fallible bodily senses, there is no way of proving that things are really one way rather than another.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
We have the brains of our ancestors but temptations they never had to face. If you want to increase the odds that a behavior will occur, then you need to make it attractive. Throughout our discussion of the 2nd Law, our goal is to learn how to make our habits irresistible.
Atomic Habits
James Clear
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