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Steve McFarland

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Steve’s Notes & Highlights

The Sellout by Paul Beatty

3 highlights

whether I’m a direct descendant of Dred Scott, that colored conundrum who, as a slave living in a free state, was man enough for his wife and kids,

Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

by Jeff Bezos

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The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4)

by Robert A. Caro

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Steve’s Quotes

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

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“Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something
(All The King's Men)”
― Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men

tags: humor, novel, philosophy, pulitzer-prize

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“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

tags: biography, opening-lines

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“For all those whose cares
have been our concern,
the work goes on,
the cause endures,
the hope still lives,
and the dream shall never die.”
― Ted Kennedy

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“With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.”
― John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address

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