Thomas Shaffer

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read‎ (317)
long-reads‎ (5)
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backburner‎ (5)
lemmed‎ (3)
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religion‎ (50)

christianity‎ (48)
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superheroes‎ (8)
biopunk‎ (7)
buddhism‎ (7)
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Thomas is Currently Reading

Thomas Shaffer is currently reading

Catechism of the Catholic Church: Complete and Updated

by Catholic Church

bookshelves: currently-reading, christianity, religion, non-fiction

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Jul 14, 2014 01:20AM

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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)

by George R.R. Martin

bookshelves: high-fantasy, currently-reading

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Dec 12, 2013 01:28PM

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle

bookshelves: detective-fiction, currently-reading

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Thomas’s Quotes

“Never confuse Motion with Action.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

tags: action

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“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

tags: reality-bothered

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“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: aspirations, castles-in-the-air, dreams, foundations, futility, goals, security, work-lost

1898 likes

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: books

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