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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West France and England in North America

by Francis Parkman

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A Short History of Ireland, 1500–2000

by John Gibney

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A Short History of the Gaza Strip

by Anne Irfan

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Mike’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan

This Magnetic North: Candid Conversations on a Changing Northern Michigan by Tim Mulherin

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pandemic and climate refugees.

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Mike’s Quotes

“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 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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“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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