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King Solomon's Mines (Allan Quatermain, #1)

by H. Rider Haggard

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Halo: The Fall of Reach

by Eric S. Nylund (Goodreads Author)

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“If there is one lesson form the centuries-long story of the library, it is that libraries only last as long as people find them useful. In other words libraries need to adapt to survive as they have always adapted to survive.”
― ― Andrew Pettegree, The Library: A Fragile History

tags: human-knowledge, knowledge, libraries

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“When things are easy a person doesn’t really learn about himself. It’s what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”
― Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

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“It is not hard to die, but it would be a very bitter thing to live my life in dishonor.”
― Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

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“Yea, he who is a true king of men, will not say to himself, 'Lo! I am worthy to be crowned with laurels;' but rather will he say to himself, 'What more is there that I may do to make the world the better because of my endeavors?”
― Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

tags: charity, king, leadership, responsibility, royalty

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“If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. – If you follow in another’s footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. – Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. – Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives”
― Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

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