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The Value of Gifts vs Commodities
‘A commodity has value and a gift has not. A gift has worth. ‘― Lewis Hyde
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Who We Are: Life as an Encyclopedia of Experiences
‘Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatorial of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopaedia.‘― Italo Calvino
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The Endless Passion for Books
‘I am haunted by an inexhaustible passion that up to now I have not managed or wanted to quench. I feel that I have never enough books. Books delight one in depth, run through our veins, advise us and bind us in a kind of active and keen familiarity; and an individual book does not…
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The Enchantment of a Great Book
‘It happens to us once or twice in a lifetime to be drunk with some book which probably has some extraordinary relative power to intoxicate us and none other; and having exhausted that cup of enchantment we go groping in libraries all our years afterwards in the hope of being in paradise again.‘― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Great Beyond: Higher dimensions, parallel universes and the extraordinary search for a theory of everything, Paul Halpern (ISBN 9780471741497, Trade Paper Press)
I got a tip about this book from somewhere I cannot remember. But it was a lucky tip. The book is basically a short history of what has lead us to string theory. It starts of with the mathematical extension of Euclidian geometry to more dimensions by Riemann and Gauss. Then the link is made…
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Why Gold Is So Hard to Find
‘I see no reason why the electric forces of the earth don’t consolidate gold to an easily accessible spot, from which we might fashion our currency. But Nature does not manage it so. She puts it in little fissures in the earth, nobody knows where: you may dig long and find none; you must dig…
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Digging for Gold: Heraclitus on Effort and Reward
‘Gold-seekers dig much earth to find a little gold.‘― Heraclitus
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good luck books
‘Aren’t we ever going to leave anything to destiny, or to good luck, or to the happy suggestion of some wise book seller?‘― Christopher Morley
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The lap of eternity
‘I no sooner come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is idleness, the mother of ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat, with so lofty a spirit and…
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