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Blood on the Moon (Lloyd Hopkins, #1)

by James Ellroy

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Dec 31, 2019 01:43PM

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

tags: inspirational, values

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“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

tags: body, food

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“Somewhere along the way companies grew to have no respect for the people whose lives their products perhaps intended to improve, refusing to provide workers with a decent wage or health insurance. Despite this, people fight to endure, just as they always have. And as they fight, some percentage of them will look to a drug that falsely promises help in that cause.”
― Nick Reding, Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

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“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“To look at them, leaning against the counter in the tiny kitchen, is to understand the connection between farming, itself an act of blind faith, and religion. If you can believe in a year’s worth or corn or beans, it seems, you can believe in anything.”
― Nick Reding, Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town

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