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The Bowser family history

by Addison Bartholomew Bowser

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Sep 06, 2020 12:10AM

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The Confessions of Nat Turner

by William Styron

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Tim Pickering said: " Anyone who decides to read this book should really look at primary documents first. This is complete fiction of an actual event, twisting characters to make plot and drama and gives no real prudence to cause and effect. Obviously written by a man who ...more "

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“And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence”
― Bertrand Russell

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“Too long have the workers of the world waited for some Moses to lead them out of bondage. He has not come; he never will come. I would not lead you out if I could; for if you could be led out, you could be led back again.”
― Eugene V. Debs

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“There are few books that set out what a mature person can believe - someone fully grown up, I mean. Aristotle's 'Ethics', Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations', Montaigne's 'Essays', and the essays of Samuel Johnson come to mind. Even with these, we do not simply accept everything that is said. The author's voice is never our own, exactly; the author's life is never our own. It would be disconcerting, anyway, to find that another person holds precisely our views, responds with our particular sensibility, and thinks the same things important. Still, we gain from these books, weighing and pondering ourselves in their light. These books - and also some less evidently grown-up ones, Thoreau's 'Walden' and Nietzsche's writings, for example - invite or urge us to think along with them, branching in our own directions. We are not identical with the books we read, but neither would we be the same without them.”
― Robert Nozick, The Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations

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