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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God

by Carl Sagan

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Apr 04, 2026 07:04PM

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No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

by Gardiner Harris

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Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austen

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“If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You’re going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It’s like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people. And I think some suffering, maybe even intense suffering, is a necessary ingredient for life, certainly for developing compassion.”
― Desmond Tutu, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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“Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: conversation, love, rhett-butler, scarlett-o-hara, talking

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“As the Dalai Lama put it, “In fact, taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life.” The”
― Dalai Lama, The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

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“I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: rhett-butler

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