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The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 2

by Joshua Bowen

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The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament: Volume 1

by Joshua Bowen

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Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

by Brian Kilmeade

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Michael’s Quotes

“He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

tags: circe, greek-mythology, intimacy, love, odysseus, scars, vulnerability

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“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”
― Junot Díaz

tags: intimacy, junot-diaz, vulnerability

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“I can tell you that banning books, burning books, blocking books is often used as a way to erase people, a belief system, or culture.”
― Brianna Labuskes, The Librarian of Burned Books

tags: book-censorship, books, historical-fiction, world-war-2

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“For the inexperienced, however, it is very difficult to distinguish passionate love from mere sex hunger; especially is this the case with well-brought-up girls, who have been taught that they could not possibly like to kiss a man unless they loved him.”
― Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals

tags: intimacy, maturity, sex

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“The term cult is not itself pejorative but simply descriptive,” the American psychologist Margaret Thaler Singer, who spent her career studying cults, has written. “A cultic relationship is one in which a person intentionally induces others to become totally or nearly totally dependent on him or her for almost all major life decisions, and inculcates in these followers a belief that he or she had some special talent, gift, or knowledge.”
― Margalit Fox, The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

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