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Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age by Sherry Turkle

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We deny ourselves the benefits of solitude because we see the time it requires as a resource to exploit. Instead of using time alone to think (or not think), we think of filling it with digital connection.

This is exactly why we can't think for ourselves.

Amanda’s Quotes

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain

tags: books, contentment, friends, friendship, life

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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.”
― Zelda Fitzgerald

tags: love

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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

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Booked on 25th — 18 members — last activity Jan 16, 2017 12:26PM
A group for Booked on 25th (independent bookstore on Historic 25th Street in Ogden, UT) book clubs.

Atheist Book Club — 13 members — last activity Jan 02, 2017 01:35PM
Secular Reading. Just a bunch of atheists getting together to read fine literature. What we'll read will be loosely democratic in nature, and it may b ...more

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The Peculiar Book Club is the esteemed home of the quirky, quizzical, curious, and bizarre. Join host Dr. Brandy Schillace for events twice a month vi ...more