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Roosevelt is used to such criticism. He has been hearing it all his life. “If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies.”19
“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
“He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.”
― Moonraker
― Moonraker
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Sheldon’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sheldon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Business, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Literary Fiction, Manga, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Politics, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Thriller, Travel, and Young-adult
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