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Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants

by Jane Goodall

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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

by Michael Pillsbury

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The Pinochet File: A Declassified Dossier on Atrocity and Accountability

by Peter Kornbluh

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The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith

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No student of social matters in these days can escape feeling how precarious is the existence of that with which he deals. Western man has escaped for the moment the poverty which was for so long his all-embracing fate. The unearthly light ...more

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Van’s Quotes

“A mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.”
― William Wordsworth

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“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.”
― Leslie Feinberg, Stone Butch Blues

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

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“There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”
― Richard Dawkins

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“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman

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