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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
“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
“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
“By outward appearances, Cantabrigia Five was a video journalist. But it made sense that, in a world where no police or military action could be judged successful unless it looked good to ordinary persons watching it on video screens, she was also a general.”
― Seveneves
― Seveneves
“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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“Princess Nell had to reconstruct them, learning the language, which was extremely pithy and made heavy use of parentheses.”
― The Diamond Age
― The Diamond Age
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