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The Showman

by Simon Shuster

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The Cossacks

by Leo Tolstoy

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Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools

by Natasha Singer

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Brian’s Notes & Highlights

Gaza: Stay Human by Vittorio Arrigoni

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It all began after Israel ‘disengaged’ from Gaza in the summer of 2005. The settlers were moved so as to enable the Israel army to control the Strip and employ harsh, retaliatory and punitive action without worrying about the fate of Jewish ...more

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Brian’s Quotes

“The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.”
― Mark Twain

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“Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”
― Marcus Aurelius

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“Liberties aren't given, they are taken.”
― Aldous Huxley

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“There’s no such thing as a young refugee; every migrant has a past they’ve fled from, and how can you be young when you already have one life behind you?”
― Lev Golinkin, A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka: A Memoir

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