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Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A '90s Rock Memoir

by Melissa Auf der Maur

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The Final System

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Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures

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Richard’s Notes & Highlights

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

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He had lived for so long among people whose sole ambition was to get something for nothing that he had learned not to look for seriousness in anything.

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Richard’s Quotes

“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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“For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

tags: completion

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“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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“The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

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“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

tags: atrocity, culpability

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