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Book cover for One Last Talk: Why Your Truth Matters and How to Speak It
people with great intellectual understandings of their issues are often the ones with little to no emotional connection to them.”
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Dear Rick: this pungent quote is no where more apropos than in war. The old and silly send the young and naive to die. Think of Robert McNamara, an intellectual's intellectual who programmed the Viet …
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William Faulkner
“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”
William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

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

Franz Kafka
“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.”
Franz Kafka

Mark Twain
“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
Mark Twain

C.G. Jung
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

8115 The History Book Club — 26183 members — last activity May 26, 2026 12:19PM
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Books about tech and how we got here combined with future looking books about where we might be going
851876 ATXSciRead--Austin's Science + Nature Book Club — 8 members — 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
25x33 Quake books I wish someone had recommend to me — 2 members — 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
151274 Effective Altruists — 656 members — 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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