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The Joyce Girl

by Annabel Abbs

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Patrick’s Quotes

“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
― Gore Vidal, Screening History

tags: america, american-ts, americans, educated-voters, elections, hope, political-education, politics, vote

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“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
― Gore Vidal

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“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
― Milton Friedman

tags: equality, freedom

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“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
― William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

tags: past, time

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“There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.”
― Pierre Dos Utt, Tanstaafl: A Plan for a New Economic World Order

tags: misattributed-milton-friedman, misattributed-robert-a-heinlein, tanstaafl, tanstafl

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Livingston Parish Library — 151 members — last activity Oct 05, 2021 03:13PM
Growing the tree of knowledge...one book at a time.

}~>O MERBOOKS: The Group For All Things Mermaid O<~{ — 298 members — last activity Oct 16, 2019 11:43PM
Dive into the #1 group on Goodreads for mermaid enthusiasts! Looking for recommendations on great mermaid books? Want to chat with fellow fin-atics? H ...more

Irish Readers — 708 members — last activity Jan 25, 2026 09:30PM
A group for the Irish members of Goodreads! Every month we nominate and vote for a book which we read and discuss the following month. If you are ju ...more

The Aquaman Club! — 5 members — last activity Dec 20, 2017 07:08AM
This is the place to discuss all things Aquaman (or other comic related stuff if we somehow run out of things to say about our buddy)!