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Black Majority: Race, Rice, and Rebellion in South Carolina, 1670-1740

by Peter H. Wood

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Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

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“Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.”
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“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
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“An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. "Can they be brought together?" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. "I despise intelligence" really means: "I cannot bear my doubts.”
― Albert Camus

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“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.”
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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
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