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Melissa’s favorite books

World War Z by Max Brooks Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt Fear and Loathing by Paul Perry The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris The Lucifer Principle by Howard Bloom The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. PostSecret by Frank Warren U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) by Founding Fathers Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs
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Melissa’s Quotes

Marcus Tullius Cicero
“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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Frank Zappa
“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa
tags: books, humor
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Douglas Adams
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing
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Robert Frost
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
tags: life
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Elie Wiesel
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel
tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, inspirational, love, opposite, philosophy
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