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Susan is Currently Reading

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Telegraph Avenue

by Michael Chabon

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The Empath's Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People

by Judith Orloff (Goodreads Author)

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Tam Lin

by Pamela Dean

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Susan’s Quotes

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish

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“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
― Henry Ward Beecherr

tags: books, humor

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success

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