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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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“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables

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