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Dark Star Safari: Ov... 01/17 Brian is currently reading:
Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown (Paperback)
by Paul Theroux
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Listening Is an Act... 01/17 Brian is currently reading:
Listening Is an Act of Love: A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project (Hardcover)
by Dave Isay
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Parting the Waters:... 01/17 Brian is currently reading:
Parting the Waters: Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-63 (Paperback)
by Taylor Branch
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Leaving the Saints:... Brian gave 4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars to:
Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith (Paperback)
by Martha Beck
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"So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter."Gordon W. Allport
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."Albert Einstein
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"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."Einstein
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795125 Brian wrote: "I had to read this for...Richard John Perry's class up at SLU. Man, I never thought that book was go...more "

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46677 New comment on Brian's review of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
795125 Brian wrote: "haha, one of mine, too. My parents used to read it to me because I would throw shit fits when I was ...more "

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Brian's favorite quotes

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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi

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"Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Self Reliance)

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"If you are going through hell, keep going"
Winston S. Churchill

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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
Albert Einstein

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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
Ralph Waldo Emerson




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