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Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

by Eric Jay Dolin (Goodreads Author)

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― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

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“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
― Bill Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

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“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

[Thoughts on Various Subjects]”
― Jonathan Swift , Abolishing Christianity and Other Essays

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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