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“There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.”
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“Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.”
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“Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
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“The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
― Cosmos
It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long. Longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang.”
― Cosmos
Amanda’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Amanda’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1 book
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11 friends
20 books
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48 friends
253 books
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14 friends
428 books
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5,744 friends
10 books
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30 friends
0 books
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18 friends
58 books
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25 friends
82 books
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2,012 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Classics, Crime, Ebooks, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Humor and Comedy, Mystery, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Suspense, Thriller, and Travel
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