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  1. Ben Mezrich _ Seven Wonders

    One of the many pieces of advice his father had given him-besides the importance of antivenom and the need for a good, sturdy blade-was that field anthropology was ninety percent preparation, and ten percent trying desperately to recover when you didn't prepare properly.
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  2. Ben Mezrich _ Bitcoin Billionaires

    Silicon Valley was a town made up of engineers who thought in frameworks, decision trees, and game theory.
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  3. Ben Mezrich _ Bitcoin Billionaires

    Zuckerberg had gotten lucky-in another world, the twins never would have had to approach him for coding help. In any event, Tyler and Cameron didn't believe they were on the earth to exist; they were here to create, to build.
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  4. Ben Mezrich _ The Accidental Billionaires:

    You didn't go on MySpace to communicate, you went there to show yourself off. It was like one big narcissistic playground.
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  5. Ben Mezrich _ Bitcoin Billionaires

    You still had to use the Balkanized, legacy banking system, which was built before the internet even existed, littered with middlemen and rent-seekers all along the way. And only if the central authorities of this network allowed it to happen, would your money move at a snail's pace from point A to point B.
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  6. Ben Mezrich _ Bitcoin Billionaires

    As an entrepreneur, you had one, maybe two, but usually not more than three chances to catch lightning in a bottle; as a venture capitalist, however, you could chase lightning as long as you had cash to invest.
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  7. Ben Mezrich _ Bitcoin Billionaires

    Tyler was to his left, and to his right were the three other witnesses who had joined them for the headlining session of the first day of testimony. Directly next to Cameron sat Fred Wilson, a seasoned venture capitalist veteran who had moved into the cyber currency space in a big way, with the countenance of someone who had seen a number of technology waves, including the first dot-com boom and bust. Next to Wilson, the up-and-comer venture capitalist Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture. And at the end of the bench, Barry Silbert, the founder and CEO of the startup SecondMarket.
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  8. Ben Mezrich _ Once Upon a Time in Russia:

    someone exceedingly loyal, a true yes-man, a cog who knew when to turn, when to stay still.
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  9. Ben Mezrich _ The Accidental Billionaires:

    occurred. But there was no denying it now, the evidence was all over him. The pleasantly warm flush to his normally sallow cheeks; the relaxed, almost rubbery way he leaned against the window-a stark contrast to his usual calcified, if slightly hunched posture; and most important
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  10. Ben Mezrich _ Sex on the Moon: The Amazing

    I once knew a beautiful young woman that didn't believe in forever. She became my forever.
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  11. Ben Mezrich _ Bringing Down the House: The

    Below, he could see down the entire Strip, from the radioactive green lion at the base of the MGM Grand to the glowing spire of the Stratosphere. The logjam street traffic just added to the visual effect: a thousand headlights blinking like neurons in the glowing spine that snaked down the center of the city.
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  12. Ben Mezrich _ The Accidental Billionaires:

    To guys like Mark, time was another weapon of the establishment, like alphabetical order. The great engineers, hackers - they didn't function under the same time constraints as everyone else.
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