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“The art of medicine is long, Hippocrates tells us, "and life is short; opportunity fleeting; the experiment perilous; judgment flawed.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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“(...) an instance when Fate had conspired with Nature to give them a sign that theirs was no ordinary journey.”
― Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

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“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”
― Amitav Ghosh, River of Smoke

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“History repeats, but science reverberates.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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The Life of a Book Addict — 12173 members — last activity 3 hours, 27 min ago
We now read at "On the Same Page." ...more

Aussie Readers — 6152 members — last activity 11 minutes ago
A group for all Australian Goodreads members (and those interested in Australia), no matter what they read!

Ask Isabel Allende - Wednesday, February 12th! — 1417 members — last activity Feb 19, 2014 01:56PM
Join us on Wednesday, February 12th for a special discussion with author Isabel Allende! Isabel will be discussing her work in English and Spanish inc ...more

Ask M.L. Stedman - Friday, May 10th! — 396 members — last activity Jan 23, 2019 02:06PM
Join us on Friday, May 10th 2013 for a special discussion with Goodread's Choice Award winner, M.L. Stedman. M.L. Stedman will be discussing her novel ...more

The Year of Reading Proust — 1594 members — last activity Jul 05, 2022 10:16AM
2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more

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