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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.”
― Heretics
― Heretics
“The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.”
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“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
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“But oppositions have the illimitable range of objections at command, which need never stop short at the boundary of knowledge, but can draw forever on the vasts of ignorance.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
“One should not have to spend four years in graduate school in order to learn how to read. Four years of graduate school, in addition to twelve years of preparatory education and four years of college—that adds up to twenty full years of schooling. It should not take that long to learn to read. Something is very wrong if it does.”
― How to Read a Book
― How to Read a Book
Raja’s 2025 Year in Books
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480 books
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119 books
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127 books
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847 books
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534 friends
2,547 books
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670 friends
1,727 books
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76 friends
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