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Zach Smith

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Average rating: 3.48 · 180 ratings · 39 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trouble in Pizza Paradise (Dolphin Girl #1) 3.43 avg rating — 148 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Super Pizza & Kid Kale by Phaea Crede (Goodreads Author), Zach Smith (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.22 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eye of the Baloney Storm (Dolphin Girl #2) 3.75 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

by David McCullough

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Making Movies

by Sidney Lumet

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Don Quixote

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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“(N)ot everything fits easily into our systems of classification. The world might be, it turns out, too complicated for us to know.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

tags: classification, complexity, labels, understanding-the-world

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“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems. Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Damn the Absolute!”
― William James

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“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Man must not attempt to dispel the ambiguity of his being but, on the contrary, accept the task of realizing it.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

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