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Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America

by John Charles Chasteen

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The Death of Artemio Cruz

by Carlos Fuentes

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Holy Bible: King James Version

by Anonymous

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Bread’s Quotes

“Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one seems to know how useful uselessness is.”
― Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries

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“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
― Baruch Spinoza

tags: philosophy, science

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“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― Homer, The Odyssey

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“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Plato, Theaetetus

tags: philosophy, thinking, wisdom, wondering

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“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

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