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“Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how little time we take to remark upon this singular and gratifying fact. By the most astounding stroke of luck an infinitesimal portion of all the matter in the universe came together to create you and for the tiniest moment in the great span of eternity you have the incomparable privilege to exist.”
― I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
― I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
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“To study the past is to unlock the prison of the present.”
― These Truths: A History of the United States
― These Truths: A History of the United States
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Matt’s 2025 Year in Books
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