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The beginnings of science fiction are hard, if not impossible to date. The Indian epic tale Ramayana, for instance, written around 500BC, tells of flying vehicles that could travel into space, but the story as a whole is fantasy with only a
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“An ambivert is an individual who falls between the personality characteristics of an introvert and an extrovert; it is someone who identifies with characteristics of both personality traits.”
― Clever Knickers: Facts and General Knowledge
― Clever Knickers: Facts and General Knowledge
“Evil is not something instilled in a few unlucky persons by a malicious Lucifer. If we are to understand “evil” at all, we must think of it as a word—an emotional word—we use to describe actions performed by other humans that we experience as breathtakingly horrible, shocking, and, often enough, nauseating.”
― The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
― The Road Out of Hell: Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders
“Staying engaged with meaningful work—and fending off the allure of email— is all about making progress visible.”
― Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done
― Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done
“people have what he calls a natural negativity bias toward email. 8 Goleman found that if the sender felt positive about an email, then the receiver usually just felt neutral. And if the sender felt neutral about the message, then the receiver typically felt negative about it.”
― Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done
― Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions and Get REAL Work Done
“Almonds are members of the peach family.”
― Clever Knickers: Facts and General Knowledge
― Clever Knickers: Facts and General Knowledge
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Our next readathon will be April 18-19, 2026. We'll start reading at 8am Eastern Time April 18th, and end at 8am April 19th.. ...more
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Welcome to the official Oprah's Book Club group. OBC is the interactive, multi-platform reading club bringing passionate readers together to discuss i ...more
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An annual reading challenge to to help you stretch your reading limits and explore new voices, worlds, and genres! The challenge begins in January, bu ...more
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