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“Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it.”
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“Reducing parables to a single meaning destroys their aesthetic as well as ethical potential.”
― Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
― Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi
“I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.”
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“When men oppress their fellow-men, the oppressor ever finds, in the character of the oppressed, a full justification for his oppression.” Douglass, amazingly, summed up the history of racist ideas in a single sentence.”
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
― Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Guardian Newspaper 1000 Novels
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The Guardian put together an excellent list entitled '1000 Novels Everyone Must Read', and this group will read books each month from a selection of t ...more
Dennis’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Dennis’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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