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Wild Nights: How Taming Sleep Created Our Restless World

by Benjamin Reiss

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"In his 1784 book "Notes on the State of Virginia", Thomas Jefferson turned Tryon's plea for adequate downtime for slaves inside out, arguing that proper plantation management demanded "less" rather than "more" sleep for slaves." — Apr 19, 2018 04:00AM

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“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

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“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”
― Katherine Rundell, Rooftoppers

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“Money may not buy happiness, but I'd rather cry in a Jaguar than on a bus.”
― Françoise Sagan

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“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

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“I applaud the courage of he who accepts each and every one of the laws of a game he did not invent and was not asked if he wanted to play”
― Juan Carlos Onetti, A Brief Life

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