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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
[Letter to William Bradford Jr. April 1 1774]”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
“Fruit is not my thing,” Kate said. “Watch me eat an In-N-Out burger sometime.”
― The Job
― The Job
“The name UNIX began as a pun: because early versions of the operating system supported only one user—Ken Thompson—Peter Neumann, a security researcher at Stanford Research International, joked that it was an “emasculated Multics,” or “UNICS.” The spelling was eventually changed to UNIX.”
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
― Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
“Here’s the thing. We all have skills, and we have an obligation to use them to the best of our ability. Some people are whizzes with math. Some people are musical prodigies. Some people can bake cakes. Some people can change a tire. Lula has breasts.”
― Dirty Thirty
― Dirty Thirty
“I’m not saying that you will ever be over the breakup of your marriage. Any relationship that started with that six-second love stays with you forever, and that is as it should be. Like everything else in this life, it changes constantly—it subsides, flares, grows distant, comes close, gets smooth—but, make no mistake, it stays.”
― A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
― A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story
Shannon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shannon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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43 friends
100 books
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64 friends
477 books
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5 friends
359 books
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53 friends
1,783 books
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23 friends
633 books
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166 friends
3,075 books
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217 friends
36 books
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102 friends
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