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individuals (and, ultimately, society at large) may be best served by sustaining a flexible, situationally appropriate balance between the two orientations: Turn down the ego volume when it means expanding the self to incorporate new
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“The offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet; that I haven’t understood enough; that I can’t know enough; that I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
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“Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form, but with regard to their mode of life.”
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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
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Dimitri’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Dimitri’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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