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Michael is Currently Reading

Michael Dow is currently reading

System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)

by Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)

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Aug 08, 2026 08:48PM

Michael’s Quotes

“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: accomplishment, achievement, inspirational, misattributed, modesty, recognition

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“The vile John Morton, who was now Archbishop of Canterbury, had created a process of extortion known as “Morton’s Fork.” If a man was well off, he had plenty to share with his king. If he had little, he was adept at getting along on less and could give to the king.”
― Samantha Wilcoxson, Plantagenet Princess, Tudor Queen: The Story of Elizabeth of York

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“Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

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“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

tags: work

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“Tis a Fearful Thing

‘Tis a fearful thing
to love what death can touch.

A fearful thing
to love, to hope, to dream, to be –

to be,
And oh, to lose.

A thing for fools, this,

And a holy thing,

a holy thing
to love.

For your life has lived in me,
your laugh once lifted me,
your word was gift to me.

To remember this brings painful joy.

‘Tis a human thing, love,
a holy thing, to love
what death has touched.”
― Judah Halevi

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