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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Hardcover) by Mohsin Hamid bookshelves: currently-reading |
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| April 07 | ||||
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gave The Other Queen: A Novel (Hardcover) by Philippa Gregory |
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| March 26 | ||||
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gave Someone Knows My Name (Hardcover) by Lawrence Hill |
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read in March, 2009
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"This is a great book! One of the best I have read in the last year.
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| March 22 | ||||
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"And a further reason for caution, in this respect, might be drawn from the reflection that we are not always sure that those who advocate the truth are influenced by purer principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other motives not more laudable than these, are apt to operate as well upon those who support as those who oppose the right side of a question. Were there not even these inducements to moderation, nothing could be more ill-judged than that intolerant spirit which has, at all times, characterized political parties. For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. " — Alexander Hamilton | |||
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""You must learn to respect," Papa said. "But I do not respect her," I said. Papa paused for a moment, and patted my leg. "Then you must learn to hide your disrespect." " — Lawrence Hill | |||
| March 13 | ||||
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gave The White Tiger (Hardcover) by Aravind Adiga |
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"...the process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter."
— John Kenneth Galbraith
— John Kenneth Galbraith
"The family which takes its mauve an cerise, air-conditioned, power-steered and power-braked automobile out for a tour passes through cities that are badly paved, made hideous by litter, lighted buildings, billboards and posts for wires that should long since have been put underground. They pass on into countryside that has been rendered largely invisible by commercial art. (The goods which the latter advertise have an absolute priority in our value system. Such aesthetic considerations as a view of the countryside accordingly come second. On such matters we are consistent.) They picnic on exquisitely packaged food from a portable icebox by a polluted stream and go on to spend the night at a park which is a menace to public health and morals. Just before dozing off on an air mattress, beneath a nylon tent, amid the stench of decaying refuse, they may reflect vaguely on the curious unevenness of their blessings. Is this, indeed, the American genius?"
— John Kenneth Galbraith
— John Kenneth Galbraith
"On one level, Americans are too distant from the Middle East, too naive to understand its complexities and history. On another, it's the people who show up in Washington-Iranian and Arab exiles nursing a grudge, with time on their hands and money to pay for a hotel-who influence U.S. policy by default. They color Washington's view of the world, drawing us into foreign adventures we have no business being in."
— Robert Baer (The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower)
— Robert Baer (The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower)
"Destroying Iraq was the greatest strategic blunder this country has made in its history. Unless we change course, there's every reason to believe the Iraq War will end up changing the United States more than it will ever change Iraq."
— Robert Baer
— Robert Baer
"When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)
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