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When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

by Riley Black

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On Her Terms (Out in Hollywood, #3)

by Amy Spalding (Goodreads Author)

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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (Emergent Strategy, #0)

by Adrienne Maree Brown

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Patricia’s Quotes

“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

tags: books

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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, children, difficult, grown-ups, write, writers, writing

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“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: imagination, life, money

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“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

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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