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all people have an experience of their sinfulness, of breaking the Greatest Commandment and of the resulting guilt that follows. No one can escape the fall of humanity and its effects. Instead, not every person has a knowledge or an
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“Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”
― Sculpting in Time
― Sculpting in Time
“Give me 26 lead soldiers and I will conquer the world.”
― Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
― Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack
“What will our children be like ? A lot depends on us. But it's up to them as well. What must be alive in them is a striving for freedom. That depends on us. People who have been born into slavery find it hard to lose the habit.”
― Journal 1970-1986
― Journal 1970-1986
“A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.”
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“In London the slaughter of the innocents goes on on a scale more stupendous than any before in the history of the world. And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge God, and go to church regularly on Sunday. For the rest of the week they riot about on the rents and profits which come to them from the East End stained with the blood of the children. Also, at times, so peculiarly are they made, they will take half a million of these rents and profits and send it away to educate the black boys of the Soudan.”
― Complete Works of Jack London
― Complete Works of Jack London
David’s 2024 Year in Books
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304 books
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642 books
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272 books
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141 books
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338 books
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