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Jake is Currently Reading

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Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

by Jennifer Shahade (Goodreads Author)

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Imagination, Creativity and Spirituality in Psychotherapy (Psyche and Soul)

by Leanne Domash

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Beyond Doer and Done to

by Jessica Benjamin

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Jake’s Quotes

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: christianity, democracy

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“The Seven Social Sins are:

Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.

From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.”
― Frederick Lewis Donaldson

tags: character, commerce, conscience, happiness, humanity, knowledge, misattributed-to-gandhi, money, morality, pleasure, politics, principle, sacrifice, science, sin, sins, wealth, work, worship

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“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
― Frederick Douglass

tags: strength

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“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence

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“When you come to a fork in the road take it”
― Yogi Berra

tags: slight-misquotes

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Shakespeare Fans — 2318 members — last activity Jul 26, 2025 02:10PM
Anyone who likes Shakespeare and wants to discuss anything about his plays can join!

Philosophy — 5760 members — last activity Dec 04, 2025 02:58PM
What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

¡ POETRY ! — 22606 members — last activity Dec 04, 2025 07:15PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

Creative & Collaborative Writing — 150 members — last activity May 10, 2021 05:31AM
This group is home to those interested in creative and collaborative writing. Any writer, aspirant, beginner, student, learning how to write, not yet ...more

Theatre Books and Plays — 1494 members — last activity 35 minutes ago
A room for lovers of theatre, theater books, texts on acting, directing, theory and scripts.

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