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“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”
― Emma Lazarus

tags: quote-on-the-statue-of-liberty, statue-of-liberty

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. ”
― Raymond Chandler

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“I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: family, friends, parties, social

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“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd is content to swallow every day.”
― Voltaire

tags: books, reading

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke

tags: evil

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RMFAO (Reading My Frigging A** Off) — 870 members — last activity Mar 02, 2025 05:57PM
This group is taking a break and will be on an indefinite hold starting January 1, 2024. We are a fun bunch of nerds and bookworms/bookdragons who lo ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 327712 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Hard Case Crime — 798 members — last activity Aug 25, 2024 11:31PM
"They do write 'em like they used to." —Publishers Weekly on Fade to Blonde Look for a similar group on Facebook ...more

Audiobooks — 16630 members — last activity 15 hours, 10 min ago
Audio & audiobooks are getting more and more popular for commuters & those wanting to squeeze in another book or two a month while doing other activit ...more