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Open Her: Activate 7 Masculine Powers to Arouse Your Woman's Love & Desire

by Karen Brody

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The Real You: Leading Your Life From Your Authentic Self

by Gavin Frye

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The Savage Detectives

by Roberto Bolaño

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Siege: Trump Under Fire by Michael Wolff

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Dealing with sources in the Trump White House has continued to offer its own set of unique issues. A basic requirement of working there is, surely, the willingness to infinitely rationalize or delegitimize the truth, and, when necessary, to ...more

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“I can hear the Colonel—no land was ever acquired honestly in the history of the earth—but it does not make me feel any better.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

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“As one historian has neatly put it: The futures market is a place where “men who don’t own something are selling that something to men who don’t really want it.”
― Donald L. Miller, City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America

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“But this was how the mind worked. The mind couldn’t think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial.”
― Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

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“But so soon as I had achieved the entire course of study at the close of which one is usually received into the ranks of the learned, I entirely changed my opinion. For I found myself embarrassed with so many doubts and errors that it seemed to me that the effort to instruct myself had no effect other than the increasing discovery of my own ignorance. —Rene Descartes, Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking the Truth in the Sciences, 1637”
― Stuart Firestein, Ignorance: How It Drives Science

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