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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)

by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Author)

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The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #3)

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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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“That's the thing. I don't think I believe in deep down. I kinda think that all you are is just the things that you do.”
― Diane from Bojack Horseman

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“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

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