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Watchmen

by Alan Moore (Goodreads Author)

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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

by Mortimer J. Adler

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Breakfast of Champions

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Yamen’s Quotes

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

tags: ethics, evil, good, morality, reality

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“My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.

[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19]”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 3001: The Final Odyssey

tags: education, intellectuals, intelligence

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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing

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“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
― Aristotle

tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers

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