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The Bean Trees
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"I'm giving up on this one. The authors mean well and there's a nugget of unique ideas, but as someone with as much work experience as either of the authors, this work seems less revolutionary-- but I do find myself thinking about the concepts a lot as my kid experiences emotions." Aug 23, 2025 10:46AM

 
Why Nations Fail:...
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"Sometimes I wonder if this author has an axe to grind. It's like writing this history book out of anger? He's proving over and over that disempowering the people in your country leaves the country poor and powerless." Aug 12, 2025 07:26PM

 
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Ray Bradbury
“I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

John Knowles
“Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.”
John Knowles, A Stolen Past

Oscar Wilde
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

James Baldwin
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
James Baldwin

Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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