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Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

by Joe Posnanski (Goodreads Author)

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Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

by Jocko Willink (Goodreads Author)

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The Stone Age: A History from Beginning to End (Prehistory)

by Hourly History

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“A line comes back to Marie-Laure from Jules Verne: Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
― Irwin Shaw

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“Written words can also sing.”
― Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Dreams in a Time of War

tags: inspirational, writing

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“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and Other Short Fiction

tags: happiness

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