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A Death In Brazil

by Peter Robb

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Iz gave to: The Definitive Book of Body Language by Allan Pease read in January, 2012	My rating:
An incredible pile of absolute garbage. Baseless, unscientific, sexist load of crap.
Jan 19, 2012 10:02pm · see review
Iz marked as to-read: The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia by Ursula K. Le Guin	My rating:
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Iz marked as to-read: The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin	My rating:
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Iz marked as to-read: The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good by Robert H. Frank	My rating:
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Iz is currently reading: A Death In Brazil by Peter Robb	My rating:
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Iz gave to: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck read in November, 2011	My rating:
I liked this book on many levels. It uses simple language to tell a man's entire life, and I found it interesting from a psychological, sociological, economic, philosophical, anthropological, existential (etc) perspective. i would have never picked t...more
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“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

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“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: best , life , love , mistakes , out-of-control , truth , worst

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“The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he's one who asks the right questions.”
― Claude Lévi-Strauss

tags: questions , science

280 people liked it

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: writer’s-life

1,701 people liked it

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational

241 people liked it

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