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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway What Are People For? by Wendell Berry The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu Modern Man in Search of a Soul by C.G. Jung Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali The Secret History by Donna Tartt Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King Jr. Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov
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Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better by Jennifer Pahlka
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“A revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new technologies—it happens when society adopts new behaviors.”14
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