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Audrey is Currently Reading

Audrey is currently reading

Miss Percy's Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons (Miss Percy Guide #3)

by Quenby Olson (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 15, 2025 06:25PM

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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded

by Douglas W. Tallamy

bookshelves: currently-reading, wild-ones, non-fiction, environment-nature

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“Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

tags: beauty, ugliness

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“The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world. All we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them!”
― Muhammad Yunus

tags: entrepeneurship, motivation, poverty, truth

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“If you go out into the real world, you cannot miss seeing that the poor are poor not because they are untrained or illiterate but because they cannot retain the returns of their labor. They have no control over capital, and it is the ability to control capital that gives people the power to rise out of poverty.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty

tags: poor, poverty, poverty-alleviation, social-change

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“To me, the poor are like Bonsai trees. When you plant the best seed of the tallest tree in a six-inch deep flower pot, you get a perfect replica of the tallest tree, but it is only inches tall. There is nothing wrong with the seed you planted; only the soil-base you provided was inadequate.

Poor people are bonsai people. There is nothing wrong with their seeds. Only society never gave them a base to grow on.”
― Muhammad Yunus, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism

tags: injustice, microfinance, poverty, social-business, society

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