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What books/writings have changed your life/thinking?

I don't know if anyone else does this, but I like to read some quotes to become inspired in whatever I need.

I don't read many books, so I'm just curious what is out there and how it changed other people.

September 29, 2012

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Billionz

I rarely get inspired easily. It's always little by little.

Even if I do get inspired, I just go like "pffft yea I already know that" or "lol the guy's trying to be deep". But I am changing as I grow up.

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DaTruStrDit

Death note itself!

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ClementZ

The Bible.
Turned me towards Christianity the first time around
Turned me away the second time.

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ZombieOverlord

The Bible.

Set me down the path of Christianity.

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Laker1294

[quote=Tribe]have this sitting in my closet, how good is it?

and personally:
of mice and men
GO
pieces of you[/quote]

It's good at first in my opinion because it's about thin slicing and other topics that you've never really paid much attention to..it becomes boring eventually because the author lists things over and over..(repetitive)..after awhile.. Other than that I enjoyed it.

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ShiroNoYami

Definitely, definitely The Necronomicon.

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NoNsensical

The Tao Te Ching by the mythical Lao Tzu really helped me back in my high school days. Taoism is getting stuff done by doing nothing at all, or wu wei. As someone that flipped out over everything, that was a valuable lesson.

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Laker1294

Blink by Malcom Gladwell..it's kind of dull because it's repetitive..interesting at first though.

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AnotherPoster

The Giver, Edgar Allan Poe's works, and Anthem Even though they were assigned from the school for an essay, they were one of the only few books and stories that interested me and made me think.

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darksuitguy

Brave New World by Audrey Huxley.

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Segumisama

My sister's keeper, by Jodi Picoult
the dark tower series by Stephen King

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Casey

Listening to Frank Yang ramble has changed my life for the better good.

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