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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

by Mary Beard

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“Newspapers rely on keeping us in a constant state of anxiety, on diverting our emotions away from the things that really matter to us. Why should I yield to their power and let them tell me what to think?”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

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“Amid fears of a European war, Mexico was old news. The bishops knew this, and so treated Greene with kindness and respect as someone who could tell their story to a distracted world.”
― Richard Greene, The Unquiet Englishman: A Life of Graham Greene

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“Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.”
― Edward Hirsch, Best American Poetry 2016

tags: associations, meaning, poetry, thinking, words

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“Under a black moon, the silent hills gaze on a scourged charcoal land; their hopes pinned on that lone seed that shall one day usher in the dawn.”
― Chaitali Sengupta, Cross-Stitched Words

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“The difference between accomplished birders and beginning birders is that accomplished birders have misidentified thousands of birds and beginning birders relatively few.”
― Lisa White, Good Birders Don't Wear White: 50 Tips from North America's Top Birders

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