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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

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“It is an exhilarating and terrifying experience to walk the road of your ignorance. Learning, you learn, is not really a process of expanding your mind, but of watching it shrink against all there is to know.”
― Evan Puschak, Escape into Meaning: Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions

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“For me, fiction is when research meets compassion; I believe this is often why facts don't change people's minds, but stories do.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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“It's dusk almost completely night, and right there is the ocean. The stars begin to dot the sky. I like to think there's a giant holding the earth in one hand, a needle in his other hand, poking the sky there, there, and there-”
― Javier Zamora, Solito

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“Women were built to endure the rules men make.”
― Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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“The two are not quite the same thing: Guilt revolves around feeling bad for what you have done; shame is feeling bad about yourself as a person because of what you have done.”
― Daniel James Brown, The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

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