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Kirsten is Currently Reading

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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

by Liaquat Ahamed

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The Wealth of Nations

by Adam Smith

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Oct 17, 2009 08:10AM

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Metamorphoses

by Ovid

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Kirsten’s Quotes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”
― Marilynne Robinson

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“People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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“Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.”
― thomas paine, Rights of Man

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“I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead

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