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Dream of Venice

by CHARLES CHRISTOPHER

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Ecosystems of Florida

by Ronald L. Myers

bookshelves: owned, currently-reading, environmentalism

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(page 229 of 765)
— Dec 03, 2025 11:36AM

Dec 02, 2025 08:10AM

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Weapons of the Gulf War

by Doug Richardson

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Christopher’s Quotes

“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
― Ray Bradbury

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“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

tags: darwinism, evolution, ideology, obtuseness, understanding

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“When we can't dream any longer we die.”
― Emma Goldman

tags: aspirations, dreams, giving-up

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“Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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