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Foresight isn’t a mysterious gift bestowed at birth. It is the product of particular ways of thinking, of gathering information, of updating beliefs.
“The income-tax law in toto has virtually no defenders, even though most fair-minded students of the subject agree that its effect over the half century that it has been in force has been to bring about a huge and healthy redistribution of wealth.”
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
― Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
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“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”
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“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.”
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“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
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The Year of Reading Proust
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2013 was the year for reading—or re-reading—Marcel Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu or In Search of Lost Time for many of us. However, these th ...more
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For readers using the Amazon Kindle ebook device.
Shobeir’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shobeir’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
824 books
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111 friends
477 books
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99 friends
360 books
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51 friends
455 books
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565 friends
37 books
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20 friends
170 books
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19 friends
0 books
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83 friends
4 books
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155 friends
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