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Before You Leap: A Frog's-eye View of Life's Greatest Lessons

by Jim Lewis

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Too Old for This

by Samantha Downing (Goodreads Author)

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Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health

by Judith Walzer Leavitt

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Lisa’s Quotes

“I may not know how to fly but I know how to read, and that's almost the same thing.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi

tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world

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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
― Albert Einstein

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“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.”
― Rollo May, The Cry for Myth

tags: technology

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“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: literature, reading, self-discovery, youth

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