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The Department of Mad Scientists: How DARPA Is Remaking Our World, from the Internet to Artificial Limbs

by Michael Belfiore

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The Weaver's Legacy: A Family Epic of the American West (The O'Neill Series, #2)

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Abundance

by Ezra Klein

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How to Be an Antiracist (One World Essentials) by Ibram X. Kendi

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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