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people with great intellectual understandings of their issues are often the ones with little to no emotional connection to them.”
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“The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
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― Françoise de Graffigny, femme de lettres: Ecriture et reception (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2004:12)
“Live to the point of tears.”
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
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“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Fellowship of the Ring
The History Book Club
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"Interested in history - then you have found the right group". The History Book Club is the largest history and nonfiction group on Goodread ...more
Tech-history and future
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— last activity Jan 21, 2019 07:11PM
Books about tech and how we got here combined with future looking books about where we might be going
ATXSciRead--Austin's Science + Nature Book Club
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— last activity Jan 16, 2019 05:42PM
The Austin Texas Science Writers, known as ATXSciWri, invites lovers of science and nature writing to join the newest BookPeople book club, ATXSciRead ...more
Quake books I wish someone had recommend to me
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— last activity Apr 29, 2019 09:33PM
A "Quake book" is something I stole from Tyler Cowen. Basically, it's any book that after reading your life can no longer be the same. Something funda ...more
Effective Altruists
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— last activity Apr 22, 2026 02:40PM
Recommend books, see what other people are reading, start a discussion, what have you. N.B. This group is not actively moderated and doesn't have any ...more
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