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Mike is Currently Reading

Mike Heath is currently reading

Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon

by Edward Dolnick

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The Story of Stories: The Million-Year History of a Uniquely Human Art

by Kevin Ashton (Goodreads Author)

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Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age

by Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)

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Mike’s Notes & Highlights

Beartown (Beartown, #1) by Fredrik Backman

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The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they’re going to have any chance in the world.

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“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

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“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

[Inside Out (VH1)]”
― Warren Zevon

tags: books, passage-of-time, reading, time

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“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
― G. M. Gilbert

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