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"Very good. Compelling real life case histories." — Mar 07, 2019 11:39AM
"Very good. Compelling real life case histories." — Mar 07, 2019 11:39AM
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"So interesting. Taking a long time to read because the story spawns for me a lot of daydreams of what it would be like to live in Iran." — Mar 07, 2019 11:34AM
"So interesting. Taking a long time to read because the story spawns for me a lot of daydreams of what it would be like to live in Iran." — Mar 07, 2019 11:34AM
“Being a full prof at the University of Texas at El Paso meant living like a managing director at Barclays. Barry had always wondered why people who were just upper-middle class in New York chose to stay there, given that they could live like minor dictators in the rest of the country. “You’re negative arbing yourself,” he used to say.”
― Lake Success
― Lake Success
“The worst part of it has been, I think, the adverse effect on family life. It kills off family conversation. And it’s harder to get your children to read books. I became a confirmed reader when I was growing up in Glendale. I’ve loved reading all my life. Now I’ve got this daughter, Aissa, a very bright young lady -- but it is a hard job to get her to read. Television’s just too easy.”
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“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
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“Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Undómiel daughter of Elrond.”
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“Assisted by Samuel Collins, the tsar embarked on a series of scientific and alchemical experiments, to conduct which he imported a range of new devices – phials, metals, lenses and measuring instruments – from the German lands. These were exotica in their own right, and since they had no native Russian names, many were called by their original German ones, beginning a long tradition of importing German scientific terms into the Russian language.”
― Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
― Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
History is Not Boring
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