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The ALS Puzzle Solved? A Theory of Why Two Harmless off the Shelf Hormones Should Stop ALS in its Tracks!

by Jeff T. Bowles (Goodreads Author)

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RSV Catholic Bible, Compact Edition

by Oxford University Press

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Edward Gibbon

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Albanian Assignment: The Memoir of an SOE Agent in World War Two (The Extraordinary Life of Colonel David Smiley #1) by David Smiley

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He could barely understand English, and what little he spoke was with such a broad American accent that it was often unintelligible. We later met many men of this type, and they produced American passports with great pride; sadly, their ...more

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TRE’s Quotes

“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
― H.L. Mencken

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“Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies]”
― Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel

tags: ernst-jünger, fate

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“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensées

tags: ironic, sad

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“The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

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