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Psychomech (Psychomech, #1)

by Brian Lumley

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Misery

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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John’s Quotes

“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

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“Fully 60 percent of all young black men who drop out of high school will go to jail. This should disgrace the country. But it does not,”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

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“The first and great difference between primitive religious thought and the world religions, therefore, is that primitive peoples maintain a sense of mystery through their bond with nature; the world religions sever the relationship and attempt to establish a new, more comprehensible one. Foremost”
― Vine Deloria Jr., Spirit and Reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. Reader

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“The obscene sight of those who had played a major role in setting the scene for the Crash (men like Larry Summers, Tim Geithner, Ben Bernanke) effectively returning to the scene of the crime as ‘saviours’, wielding trillions of”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Europe after the Minotaur: Greece and the Future of the Global Economy

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“Most politicians cannot be theorists. First, because they are rarely thinkers; second, because the frenetic lifestyle they impose on themselves leaves no time for big ideas. But most of all because to be a theorist you have to admit the possibility of being wrong – the provisionality of knowledge – and you know you cannot spin your way out of a theoretical problem.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur: America, Europe and the Future of the Global Economy

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