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Jack is Currently Reading

Jack is currently reading

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

by John Mortimer

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Jun 29, 2025 07:54PM

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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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Jack’s Quotes

“…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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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: inspirational

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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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“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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