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Role Playing

by Cathy Yardley (Goodreads Author)

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Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian (Goodreads Author)

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The Giver (Giver, #1)

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“Quoting the great Enlightenment philosopher Montesquieu, she tells us that “ ‘knowledge makes men gentle,’ just as ignorance hardens us.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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“The best thing about Aristotle’s “constant learning, constant trying, constant searching” is what results from it: a mature yet still pliable person, brimming with experiences both old and new, who doesn’t rely solely on familiar routines or dated information about how the world works.”
― Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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