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Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)

by Matt Ruff (Goodreads Author)

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Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow

by Matthew Skelton (Goodreads Author)

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Everyday Ayurveda: Daily Habits That Can Change Your Life in a Day

by Bhaswati Bhattacharya

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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov

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“It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir; that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.”
― Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture

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“Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.”
― Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms

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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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