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Burn Down Master's House

by Clay Cane (Goodreads Author)

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Where Are You Really From

by Elaine Hsieh Chou

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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

by Kristin Kobes Du Mez (Goodreads Author)

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Tanja’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for The Giver (The Giver, #1)

The Giver (The Giver, #1) by Lois Lowry

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The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.

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Involuntary Witness

by Gianrico Carofiglio

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The Naked Ape

by Desmond Morris

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Tanja’s Quotes

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
― John A. Shedd

tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk

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“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
― Francis Bacon, The Oxford Francis Bacon IV: The Advancement of Learning

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“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
― Niels Bohr

tags: science

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“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

tags: fear, hesitation, hope, life, tragedy

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