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The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s

by Jason Burke

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Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

by David Graeber

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Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)

by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life by Steve Martin

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I was contracted to be onstage for twenty-five minutes. I had a solid ten minutes, and the rest of my material was unreliable.

Recursion

by Blake Crouch

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Dark Matter

by Blake Crouch

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“When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate — the genetic and neural fate — of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.”
― Oliver Sacks

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“A stick beats more ugliness into a person than it ever beats out.”
― Nellie Bly

tags: inspirational, punishment, violence

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“After watching Star Wars everyone wanted a lightsaber and was irritated that the technology for them didn’t really exist. Everyone also agreed the Ewoks should all die.”
― John Scalzi, The Ghost Brigades: Old Man's War Book 2

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“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: desire, restraint

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“The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting. The truth of the world is that it is actually chaotic. The truth is that it is not The Iluminati, or The Jewish Banking Conspiracy, or the Gray Alien Theory.

The truth is far more frightening - Nobody is in control.

The world is rudderless.”
― Alan Moore

tags: 9-11-conspiracy-theories, alex-jones, confirmation-bias, conspiracy, conspiracy-theories, young-men

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