Brian Mikołajczyk

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Brian is Currently Reading

Brian Mikołajczyk is currently reading

The Lost Tune: Early works, 1913-1930

by Stanisław Szukalski

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Jan 29, 2026 05:14PM

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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Jan 29, 2026 09:36AM

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Banksy Locations and Tours Volume 2: A Collection of Graffiti Locations and Photographs from around the UK

by Martin Bull

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Brian’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Responsibility of Intellectuals

The Responsibility of Intellectuals by Noam Chomsky

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In the Cambridge History of the Cold War, John Coatsworth writes that from 1960 to “the Soviet collapse in 1990, the numbers of political prisoners, torture victims, and executions of nonviolent political dissenters in Latin America vastly ...more

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Brian’s Quotes

“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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“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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“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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