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“There was no lightbulb moment in the story of the lightbulb. By the time Edison flipped the switch at the Pearl Street station, a handful of other firms were already selling their own models of incandescent electric lamps.”
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
“An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.”
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
“To be a good student teach. To be a great master learn.”
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“We’ve been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.”
― Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
― Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
“This may be one of the most astonishing, and tragic, hummingbird effects in all of twentieth-century technology: someone builds a machine to listen to sound waves bouncing off icebergs, and a few generations later, millions of female fetuses are aborted thanks to that very same technology.”
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
― How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World
Christian Fiction Devourers
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Clean Reads
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This is a group for people who love to read a good book, but don't want to have to put it down one chapter in because of things that, if it were a mov ...more
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I wanted to create a group for like-minded readers... adults and young adults, who want to find books to read-'in all genres', that have no- to-only o ...more
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Since I only "read" audio versions of books, I'm always on the lookout for good CLEAN audiobooks. I thought there might be others looking for the same ...more
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