Jeff Rappaport

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Nemesis (Orphan X, #10)

by Gregg Hurwitz (Goodreads Author)

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Book cover for The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 by William Manchester

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casuistry.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

by William L. Shirer

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“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
― Carl Gustav Jung

tags: life-experience

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“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
― Raymond Carver

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“The sum of a million facts is not the truth.”
― William Manchester

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“Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

tags: dishonesty, general-obregon-s-philosophy, inspirational, life, people

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