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Reader's Guide to a Liberal Education (Harvard Classics Project)

by Charles William Eliot

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All But My Life: A Memoir

by Gerda Weissmann Klein

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The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues

by Daniel McClellan (Goodreads Author)

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“I argue that most of the moral development of the past several centuries has been the result of secular not religious forces, and that the most important of these that emerged from the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment are science and reason, terms that I use in the broadest sense to mean reasoning through a series of arguments and then confirming that the conclusions are true through empirical verification.”
― Michael Shermer, The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Lead Humanity Toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom

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“Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world that it is foolish to waste time on one that does not give you pleasure.”
― Atwood H. Townsend, Good Reading

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“Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they`ve known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? Why climb this Mount Everest of formalities that makes you feel like a beggar? Why enter this jungle of foreignness where everything is new, strange and difficult? –The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.”
― Hourly History, Mayflower: A History From Beginning to End

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“All too often, the Christian industrial project reminds me less of a religion and more of the tobacco, fossil fuel, and weapons industries: willing to harm millions to keep their business going.3”
― Brian D. McLaren, Do I Stay Christian?: A Guide for the Doubters, the Disappointed, and the Disillusioned

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“Wilhelm manifested many symptoms of “narcissistic personality disorder”: arrogance, grandiose self-importance, a mammoth sense of entitlement, fantasies about unlimited success and power; a belief in his own uniqueness and brilliance; a need for endless admiration and reinforcement and a hatred of criticism; proneness to envy; a tendency to regard other people as purely instrumental—in terms of what they could do for him, along with a dispiriting lack of empathy.”
― M.J. Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

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