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Kumail Akbar
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“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
― The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
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“If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.”
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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
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“It is surprising,” Roosevelt explained, “how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.”
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
― The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Pakistani Readers
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For Pakistani Readers, authors and every one who like books.
South Asian Literature
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For readers around the world interested in literature from or about South Asia! Countries of interest include India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhut ...more
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A group to read the General Nonfiction, Biography/Autobiography, and History Books that won or were a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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This group is dedicated to non-fiction books, specifically about finance and related topics.
Kumail’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kumail’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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