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Mother Nature is a brutal bitch, red in tooth and claw, who destroys what she creates. We live, he says, in a creation in which the routine activity for organisms is “tearing others apart with teeth of all types—biting, grinding flesh,
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“If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind.”
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“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”
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“Man may feel like a feeble and powerless pawn, at some moment in his life. This apprehension can come out of the blue, in the middle of the day, at the center of a public place, like a cerebral attack. Check mated by 'daily routine', he may feel trapped in a smothering set of circumstances and only a deconstruction of all impeding barriers can bring about a vital mental deliverance. ( "Check and mate" )”
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“Here's to the good nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!”
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“my teacher read me "The Chambered Nautilus," and showed me that the shell-building process of the mollusks is symbolical of the development of the mind. Just as the wonder-working mantle of the Nautilus changes the material it absorbs from the water and makes it a part of itself, so the bits of knowledge one gathers undergo a similar change and become pearls of thought.”
― The Story of My Life
― The Story of My Life
Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joshua’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
223 books
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298 friends
1,172 books
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4,833 friends
1,533 books
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5,001 friends
1,327 books
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49 friends
158 books
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33 friends
372 books
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89 friends
14,569 books
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52 friends
612 books
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38 friends
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