“America is the greatest engine of innovation that has ever existed, and it can't be duplicated anytime soon, because it is the product of a multitude of factors: extreme freedom of thought, an emphasis on independent thinking, a steady immigration of new minds, a risk-taking culture with no stigma attached to trying and failing, a noncorrupt bureaucracy, and financial markets and a venture capital system that are unrivaled at taking new ideas and turning them into global products.”
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“Conventionality is not morality.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
WORD Book Club
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— last activity Oct 01, 2012 04:07PM
For book lovers who participate in WORD's monthly book club, at our store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. ...more
Bookaholics Anonymous
— 3 members
— last activity Sep 03, 2014 12:45PM
Herewith is the online home of the book group that has been meeting in NYC since the close of the 1990s.
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