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The Last Days of the Incas

by Kim MacQuarrie (Goodreads Author)

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"[Titu Cusi and Manco Inca had resisted] only after the Spaniards had attacked and occupied Tawantinsuyu [what the Inca called their empire], which, from the Incas' point of view, the Spaniards had no right to rule." — 6 hours, 57 min ago

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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living by David Fideler

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Empty is that philosopher’s argument by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no use in a medical art that does not cast out the sicknesses of bodies, so too there is no use in philosophy, unless it casts ...more

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

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“[N]othing is uglier than supreme authority combined with a cruel nature.”
― Ammianus Marcellinus, The Later Roman Empire

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“I am not entitled to life without death. I embrace sacred life. I embrace sacred death. I embrace the growing and crumbling in between.”
― Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

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“Nobody Wants the Rain Everybody wants green scenery Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants food on the table Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants the colourful rainbow Nobody wants the rain Everybody wants water in their bodies Nobody wants the rain”
― Jarem Sawatsky, Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain

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