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George Washington is also known as "the father of our country” in the USA. He left office in September of 1796, and on the occasion of his departure, he gave this farewell address. In it, he does indeed sound fatherly. Unfortunately... " Read more of this review » |
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
by Kang Chol-Hwan
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North Korea makes me so sad. Its people are just trying to get on like everyone else, but a ruthless psychopath deprives them of the most basic, fundamental needs and desires. This memoir brought several realizations to my doorstep: One, people look ...more |
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A scissors and pencil decide to make rabbits, from colored paper and pencil.
Lionni's training was in economics (a Ph.D from the University of Genoa in 1935), but ultimately his fascination with tearing colored paper into shapes led... " Read more of this review » |
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“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
― Lao Tzu
― Lao Tzu
“Feminism expects a man to be ethical, emotionally present, and accountable to his values in his actions with women — as well as with other men. Feminism loves men enough to expect them to act more honorably and actually believes them capable of doing so.”
― Michael S. Kimmel
― Michael S. Kimmel
“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.”
― David Foster Wallace, This is Water
― David Foster Wallace, This is Water
“And here is our girl, looking--
If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)”
― James Tiptree Jr.
If possible, worse than before. (You thought this was Cinderella transistorized?)”
― James Tiptree Jr.
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
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