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Joyce is Currently Reading

Joyce is currently reading

Food to Live: Dr. Fuhrman's Nutritarian Plan for Sustained Health and Weight Loss That Lasts

by Joel Fuhrman (Goodreads Author)

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Joyce’s Notes & Highlights

The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese

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During the war, the British loved telling us how well they treated us compared to how the Japanese would treat us if they invaded. But should any nation rule over another nation? Such things only happen when one group thinks the other is ...more

I love this passage, it’s so representative of any oppressor.

Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)

by Rebecca Yarros

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Joyce’s Quotes

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“Charisma helps us understand several curious features of fascist leadership. The notorious indolence of Hitler,45 far from making Nazism more tepid, freed his subordinates to compete in driving the regime toward ever more extreme radicalization.”
― Robert O. Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism

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“Believing is halfway to achieving.”
― Vitor M.C. Rodrigues

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, life, life-lessons, motivation, motivational, success, wisdom

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