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“I have toughened my nerves against all that sort of thing,” Seneca explained to that same friend about the noise. “I force my mind to concentrate, and keep it from straying to things outside itself; all outdoors may be bedlam, provided
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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.”
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“In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself.”
― Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
― Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World
The History Book Club
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— last activity Mar 19, 2026 05:48PM
"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Write, Wrote, Written
— 1532 members
— last activity Jan 29, 2025 01:30PM
This group is no longer active! Go to Write, Wrote, Written II if you want to be active. “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a ty ...more
The Alumni Community Book Club
— 69 members
— last activity Oct 02, 2015 07:52PM
Join the conversation! Connect with other Birthright Israel alumni about MK Michael Oren's new acclaimed book: Ally: My Journey Across the American-Is ...more
Infinite Summer 2015
— 89 members
— last activity Jun 21, 2016 02:08PM
If you've never read David Foster Wallace's 'Infinite Jest', or if you've read it and want a good excuse to take the plunge again, here's a group that ...more
44 in 52
— 67 members
— last activity Jan 14, 2016 05:21PM
I'm reading 44 books on presidents - one for each president - in the 52 weeks between Donald Trump's SNL appearance (Nov. 7, 2015) and Election Day 20 ...more
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