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Isaac Adebiyi's avatar

“To them, every time you pick a book what you should be doing is “educating yourself.”

This excerpt reminds of me of the bewildered looks I get when I say that I am trying to understand how someone became Osama bin Laden or Stalin. I always have to add that my curiosity also extends there.

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Busyminds's avatar

I guess people are strangers to intellectual curiosity as a source of pleasure.

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