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Dark Age (Red Rising Saga #5)

by Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

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One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

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“Most of the people I have really cared about in this world, I have elected to the position. I have a belief that a man’s real relatives are scattered throughout the universe, and seldom if ever belong to his immediate kin.”
― Thomas Berger, Little Big Man: A Novel

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“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.” It”
― Seth Grahame-Smith, The Last American Vampire

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