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The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop

by Adam Kucharski (Goodreads Author)

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RAM JETHMALANI MAVERICK UNCHANGED, UNREPENTANT

by Ram Jethmalani

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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

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“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
― Leo Tolstoy , Anna Karenina

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“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter Of Maladies

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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
― Jim Henson

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“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

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