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“As one becomes aware of the decline of violence, the world begins to look different. The past seems less innocent; the present less sinister.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”
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“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”
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“Modern biblical scholars have established that the Bible is a wiki. It was compiled over half a millennium from writers with different styles, dialects, character names, and conceptions of God, and it was subjected to haphazard editing that left it with many contradictions, duplications, and non sequiturs.”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
James’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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42 friends
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66 books
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20 friends
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