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“Here’s a tough-love life lesson: just because you set your mind to something doesn’t mean you can do it. Say you’re creating a square, and you want its diagonal to be the same length as its sides. Well, I hate to break it to you, but that’s not how squares work.”

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Book:Math with Bad Drawings
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