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"Been sitting on a tbr stack for years and just randomly grabbed it. Not that far in and we got Marxist Lincoln. Which is awesome." — Feb 25, 2026 09:23PM
"Been sitting on a tbr stack for years and just randomly grabbed it. Not that far in and we got Marxist Lincoln. Which is awesome." — Feb 25, 2026 09:23PM
Indian reservations were created by white men to serve as rural concentration camps,
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“Here you think that the incentive to work is finances, need for money or desire for profit, but where there’s no money the real motives are clearer, maybe. People like to do things. They like to do them well. People take the dangerous, hard jobs because they take pride in doing them,”
― The Dispossessed
― The Dispossessed
“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
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“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
― Mortality
― Mortality
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution and for life - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way for them to get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
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