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Greg is Currently Reading

Greg is currently reading

Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)

by Edmund Morris

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Nov 24, 2025 01:27PM

Greg is currently reading

Ein Lesebuch

by Kurt Tucholsky

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Greg said: " I’m reading this slowly, stretching it out until the end of the year.

Here’s a crack at translating the selected quotes below so far for those who don’t speak German:

p. 57
In the German Republic, it’s a hindrance to one’s career to be a republican.

p. 1 ...more "

progress:

(page 366 of 820)
"Wunder sind eine Reklame. Wunder beweisen nichts für die Richtigkeit eines ethischen Systems." — Nov 23, 2025 11:59AM

Nov 02, 2025 12:14PM · see review

Greg’s Quotes

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

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
― Noam Chomsky

tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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“Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh.”
― Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

tags: music

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