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Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

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The Book Keeper: A Memoir of Race, Love, and Legacy by Julia McKenzie Munemo

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I once heard a political theorist friend—a Kenyan woman who studies the concept of progress—discuss her work. She said one possible definition is simply “Get your boot off my neck, thank you.”

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“Civilization is often a thing that is barely managed.”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, The Tainted Cup

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“One of the recurrent paradoxes of populism is that it starts by warning us that all human elites are driven by a dangerous hunger for power, but often ends by entrusting all power to a single ambitious human.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

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“Are you like one of the lousy crowd cheering the Coptics who row out to the boat? You are not. You are a distinguished personality. You are a man of feeling. Among us poor drips at the human masquerade you come like an angel.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

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“…I saw an old beggar with his eyes closed sitting in the shells who had had written on his chest in mercurochrome: ‘Profit by my imminent death to send a greeting to your loved ones in Purgatory: 50 lire.”
― Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March

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“From what I know of Sheckley’s work, I should say that he is quite clever enough to have known what he was doing, and it hardly matters if he didn’t, because, as we all know, a writer’s view of what he was doing is no more valid than anyone else’s.”
― Kingsley Amis, New Maps of Hell: Penguin Modern Classics

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