“..we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously."
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“There are some human problems that have no solution. And some relationships about which there is no last word. But great books help you think about them.
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Doesn’t this now open him up for having to face a disposition?
“..no man has any natural authority over his fellow men, and..force is not the source of right,”
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"the blood that is shed, and the wealth that is expended on both sides, is the King's loss, and he gains no honour in victory."
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"All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."
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"Love does not die all at once. It dies piece by piece, like a house that crumbles room by room. First goes desire, then trust, then tenderness. What remains is the shell, and we go on living inside it as if nothing has changed."
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“I don’t believe in anything, but I’m too much of a gambler not to be affected by a lot of things.”
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"It is the desperate moment when we discover that this empire, which had seemed to us the sum of all wonders, is an endless, formless ruin,…that the triumph over enemy sovereigns has made us the heirs of their long undoing."
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"Yet a little while," she thought, "and I shall be lying on a bed like that! And what shall I have lived for?
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"They were worlds apart in everything but the simplicity of their humanity, and so they were really not apart at all."
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When oh when is “God” going to intervene and bring this human nightmare to a permanent end?
"If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me."
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“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last,”
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Good books are over your head; that’s why they’re good. So reach and pull yourself up to their level.
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First published in 1724 under the title The Fortunate Mistress this was Defoe’s last novel.
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“…let me dye a lingring death, it will be remembred a great deale longer... For my soules health I beg my bodies torment"
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This novel, I opine, captures the crucial difference between external liberation and internal reconstruction. You can walk out of prison, but the greater challenge is getting the prison out of yourself.
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Reading allows you to gain a larger share of information, understanding, and knowledge about the world.
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Reading; a wise and thoughtful way to spend your time.
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A scholar recovers from illness and, abandoning societal constraints and his wife, pursues his own desires and a profound, amoral freedom.
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“..be a person who is fearless, incorrigible, free. A friend of free expression and the truth. And intent on calling a fig a fig and a trough a trough..”
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Historical account of how “American democracy” relied on federally sanctioned force to dispossess and slaughter Native nations. Reveals the effects of violence, disease, and removal while Indigenous peoples survived through alliances, armed resistance, and culture against continental expansion.
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Moving beyond military history, Rosbottom’s narrative captures the moral awakening of France's youth under Nazi rule. It chronicles their perilous acts of rebellion against the German occupiers, transforming them from bystanders into essential, courageous participants in their liberation.
An autocracy has been built on the structures and norms of the American gov’t: concentration of power in the executive branch, and the marriage of $ and politics.
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A married aristocrat begins a passionate extramarital affair which lead to her social ruin and tragic end. In this story Tolstoy explores the themes of love, family, and hypocrisy against the backdrop of 19th century Russian society.
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Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley
I recently came across this observation which in the winter of life’s season certainly caught my attention: “Your death will come on an ordinary day, in the middle of unfinished plans, and the world will continue on without you.”
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