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Ray Smith’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ray Smith’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Ray Chen Smith
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June 2011
How to Kick Ass like Morgan Freeman: A Case Study
Three facts of life: you got to slip Uncle Sam some green, you’re going to croak, and Morgan Freeman kicks ass. Now, I don’t mean he can kick an MMA fighter’s ass or your ass or even your grandma’s ass. At 75, if he tried to kick anyone’s ass, it would be probably his own when he slips and cracks his hip in a dozen places.
No, I mean Morgan Freeman kicked the ass of life. Like Steve Martin in T Read more of this blog post »
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The Jazz Cage
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“Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.”
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The Paradoxical Commandments
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.”
― The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..”
― The Notebook
― The Notebook
“Clara n me was always close. Growin up it was me for her and her for me. You probably don’t know about a thing like that, you strike as a mighty cold fish, but that’s how it was.”
― 11/22/63
― 11/22/63
“Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away.
Song of Solomon 8:7”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
Song of Solomon 8:7”
― The Holy Bible: King James Version
Mystery/Thriller Reading Friends
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This group warmly accepts newcomers. Whereas mystery and thriller is the focus, we also love a great read, regardless of genre. Originally formed from ...more
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This group was created to connect lovers of stories across the internet with their characters and plotlines, dreams and recommendations. Bibliophiles ...more
