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Mary is Currently Reading

Mary is currently reading

The Anti-Greed Gospel: Why the Love of Money Is the Root of Racism and How the Church Can Create a New Way Forward (A Christian Historian Challenges Racial Capitalism)

by Malcolm Foley

bookshelves: currently-reading, black-white, christian-spiritual, kindle, library, more-than-once, nonfiction, readers-theater

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Apr 05, 2026 11:15PM

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How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

by Mariann Edgar Budde

bookshelves: audio, important, kindle, christian-spiritual, currently-reading

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Mary’s Notes & Highlights

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

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I hope you won't take this freedom on my part amiss; it's only a way I have of appealing to the gentle reader. Lord! haven't I seen you with the greatest authors in your hands, and don't I know how ready your attention is to wander when ...more

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Mary’s Quotes

“Eccentricty had flowered into madness.”
― Laurie R. King, The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

tags: books, humor, reading, television

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“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

tags: comedy, life, yourself

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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

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