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IT IS A WELL-ESTABLISHED Achilles’ heel of human civilization that individuals are more motivated by immediate private reward than by long-term, collective future benefits.
“The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“How hidden the heart, Nance thought. How frightened we are of being known, and yet how desperately we long for it. Father”
― The Good People
― The Good People
“never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.”
― Apples Never Fall
― Apples Never Fall
“The western clouds divided and subdivided themselves into pink flakes modulated with tints of unspeakable softness; and the air had so much life and sweetness, that it was a pain to come within doors. Ralph Waldo Emerson, ‘Nature”
― Flames
― Flames
“When a press gang surrounded a church in London, in 1755, in pursuit of a seaman inside, he managed, according to a newspaper report, to slip away disguised in “an old gentlewoman’s long cloak, hood and bonnet.”
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
― The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Lindsay’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Lindsay’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
812 books
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40 friends
69 books
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26 friends
3 books
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27 friends
0 books
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26 friends
232 books
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5 friends
9 books
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22 friends
27 books
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58 friends
0 books
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8 friends
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