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"While I don't agree with everything a lot of what Nagler's saying is agreeable. I especially like the plethora of historical examples of nonviolence. It's not just insight but fact." — Dec 21, 2010 10:37pm
"While I don't agree with everything a lot of what Nagler's saying is agreeable. I especially like the plethora of historical examples of nonviolence. It's not just insight but fact." — Dec 21, 2010 10:37pm
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"A regurgitation of A Briefer History of Time so far, I can feel it building up though." — Oct 20, 2010 07:57pm
"A regurgitation of A Briefer History of Time so far, I can feel it building up though." — Oct 20, 2010 07:57pm
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| God and Human Beings emphasizes on my favorites part of the Philosophical Dictionary, the religious speculation and in Voltaire's way, a picking apart. Interesting, informative, surprising even at times. It's entertaining how eyes of the 21st century...more | |
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| Uncle Tom's Cabin was decent for what it's worth. I haven't read anything like it before style-wise so it was a fresh experience. Uncle Tom's Cabin is definitely a must read simply for the quick knowledge of the classic story. | |
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| Obviously comical throughout, what more could you expect from Voltaire? Well clearly a lot more in the case of his Philosophical Dictionary from call outs on the Bible, call outs on people, call outs on practices, the list goes on and on. It's insigh...more | |
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| Encompassing and suffocating all bits of the media, from every sick portrayal of something we once thought we sought, this book will change your life--I hope--as it has mine. Let The Mechanical Bride squeeze out for you the secretion of sold souls. | |
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“Could there be any doubt that the Jews would seek to harm the Son of God again, knowing that his body was now readily accessible in the form of defenseless crackers?”
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
― Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“She looked at her hand: Just some hand, holding a cheap pen. Some girls’ hand. She had nothing to do with that hand. Let that hand do whatever it wanted to.”
― Cynthia Voigt, When She Hollers
― Cynthia Voigt, When She Hollers
“She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.”
― Cynthia Voigt, When She Hollers
― Cynthia Voigt, When She Hollers
“Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.”
― Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
― Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
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