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The Shadow Rising (The Wheel of Time, #4)

by Robert Jordan

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"I have reached chapter 51 "Revelations in Tanchico"...

I struggle with this book... Some of me is still captivated by it, but I often wonder about its meaningfulness in the world we live in..." — Jul 05, 2025 06:16AM

Jun 18, 2025 10:48AM

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Beginnings: Intention and Method

by Edward W. Said

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The 4-Hour Workweek

by Timothy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)

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“The UN has protocols on both 'smuggling people' and on 'trafficking in persons.' At meetings to discuss these laws, it became clear that 'trafficking' was the term used to discuss women and children, while 'smuggling' was used to refer to men.”
― Melissa Ditmore, Juhu Thukral

tags: migration, pread, pread-anthology, sexism, trafficking

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“The correct arrangement of words will make these bad feelings go away tonight.”
― Tao Lin

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“And remember, if a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.” Egwene al'Vere”
― Robert Jordan, The Dragon Reborn

tags: egwene-al-vere, hero, heroism, robert-jordan, wheel-of-time, women, women-empowerment

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“No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.”
― Charles Baudelaire, My Heart Laid Bare

tags: accomplishment, nightmare, procrastination

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“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights movement turned it into one. Sex discrimination wasn’t a crisis until feminism turned it into one. Apartheid wasn’t a crisis until the anti-apartheid movement turned it into one. In the very same way, if enough of us stop looking away and decide that climate change is a crisis worthy of Marshall Plan levels of response, then it will become one, and the political class will have to respond, both by making resources available and by bending the free market rules that have proven so pliable when elite interests are in peril.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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