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Deuteronomy - Enhanced E-Book Edition (Illustrated. Includes 5 Different Versions, Matthew Henry Commentary, Stunning Photo Gallery + Audio Links)

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“I am a vague, conjectural personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

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“Those sentences are somewhat clotted,”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

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“Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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“Hebrew Confederate Cemetery on Shockoe Hill, which is the only Jewish military cemetery in the world outside the state of Israel. The”
― Maureen Egan, Insiders' Guide to Richmond, VA

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“Philip was fascinated by the all-absorbing question of the Beatific Vision: whether the souls of the blessed see the face of God immediately upon entering Heaven or whether they have to wait until the Day of Judgment.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

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