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Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Uncle John's Bathroom Reader, #15)

by Bathroom Readers' Institute (Goodreads Author)

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Uncle John's Presents Book of the Dumb

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The Art of War: A New Translation

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Shortest Way Home: One Mayor's Challenge and a Model for America's Future by Pete Buttigieg

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To me, the whole episode was about what happens when a public official becomes obsessed with ideology and forgets that the chessboard on which he is playing out his strategy is, to a great many people, their own life story. Good policy, ...more

The Silent Patient

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“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Pebble in the Sky

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“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: apocalypse-now, man, mind

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“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.”
― Joseph Conrad

tags: chronic-illness, cure, cures, healing, illness, inspirational, recovery

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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”
― Conrad Joseph

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