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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

by Jared Diamond

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read in January 2006

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Janet said: " I don't think I will ever finish this book, but it's good to know it's there and thicker than hell. ...more "

Aug 01, 2007 11:47AM · see review

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The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

by Natalie Angier

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Janet’s Quotes

“Searching my heart for its true sorrow,
This is the thing I find to be:
That I am weary of words and people,
Sick of the city, wanting the sea”
― Edna St. Vincent Millay, Second April

tags: ocean, poem, poetry, sea, solitude, sorrow, weariness

54 likes

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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“I'd never had a mind for math. ... It was a logic that made little sense to me. In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or a formula or an equation. It was a story.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

tags: narrative, perspective, philosophy-of-life

22 likes

“Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me. My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger. So is yours. You are not grieving your son’s death because his death was ugly and unfair. You’re grieving it because you loved him truly. The beauty in that is greater than the bitterness of his death.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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“Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

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