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Janice is Currently Reading

Janice is currently reading

Ain't Nobody's Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton

by Martha Ackmann

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Mar 16, 2026 05:31PM

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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

by Erik Larson (Goodreads Author)

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All I Know About Animal Behavior I Learned in Loehmann's Dressing Room

by Erma Bombeck

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Janice ’s Quotes

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.”
― Aldous Huxley, Do what you will: Twelve essays

tags: consistency

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“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.”
― Théophile Gautier

tags: misattributed-to-einstein

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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: albert-einstein, future, war, wisdom

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“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: patriotism, politics

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