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Robert is Currently Reading

Robert is currently reading

Manliness

by Harvey C. Mansfield

bookshelves: currently-reading, american-lit, essays

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Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, sci-fi

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Sep 20, 2025 05:59PM

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The history of Rome by Theodor Mommsen ; translated with the sanction of the author by William Purdie Dickson. Volume 3 1898 [Leather Bound]

by The history of Rome by Theodor Mommsen ; translated with the sanction of the author by William Purdi

bookshelves: currently-reading, european-history, great-books, history, historiography

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Robert’s Quotes

“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.”
― Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

tags: leadership

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“Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: gratitude, thanksgiving

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“The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time.”
― Mortimer J. Adler

tags: great-books

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“The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism

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“If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship