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The 500 (Mike Ford, #1)

by Matthew Quirk (Goodreads Author)

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The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help

by Amanda Palmer (Goodreads Author)

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“I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.”
― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: atheism, bible, organized-religion, religion

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“More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

tags: fear, name-of-the-wind, patrick-rothfuss, wisdom

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“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

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