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Emese is Currently Reading

Emese is currently reading

Crossroads (Haven River Ranch, #1)

by Devney Perry (Goodreads Author)

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Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)

by Nick Trenton

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Steering Political Currents: Policy Design and Implementation in China's Smart Grid Industry (China - Politics and Economics Book 5)

by Hannes Gohli

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Emese’s Notes & Highlights

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

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No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various ...more

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Emese’s Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: how, life, purpose, questioning, questions, why

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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

tags: life

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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