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Rumpole for the Defence (Rumpole of the Bailey #4)

by John Mortimer

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The Total State: How Liberal Democracies Become Tyrannies

by Auron MacIntyre

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Jun 25, 2024 05:16AM

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History of the Later Roman Empire: From the Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian Volume 2

by John Bagnell Bury

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“People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.”
― Richard Mitchell, Less Than Words Can Say

tags: education-system, logic, thought

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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“…but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man with the Twisted Lip - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

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“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be." Leon Bloy”
― Léon Bloy

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“Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.”
― Richard Mitchell

tags: education, homeschool, homeschooling

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