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Kendra is Currently Reading

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Great Big Beautiful Life

by Emily Henry (Goodreads Author)

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Rental House

by Weike Wang

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Jan 20, 2026 06:34AM

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Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott (Goodreads Author)

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Kendra’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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We are hardwired not to be hardwired, and this anatomical plasticity may be the key to the plasticity of our minds.

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Kendra’s Quotes

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, simplicity, understand

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“What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

tags: 1993, advice, complaining, inspirational

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“I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.”
― Henry James, Daisy Miller

tags: feminism, women

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“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

tags: love

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“It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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