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Katie is Currently Reading

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Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story

by Julie K. Brown

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“I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me.”
― Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

tags: adventure, love

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“Trickle-down theory - the less than elegant metaphor that if one feeds the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

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“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”
― John Kenneth Galbraith

tags: conformity, food-for-thought, thinking

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