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Lauren is Currently Reading

Lauren is currently reading

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Illustrated Classics)

by Lucia Monfried

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Jun 04, 2023 05:20AM

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The New Dictionary Of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know

by E.D. Hirsch Jr.

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"I'm going through this one at one entry per day in alphabetical order. Since that's not actually how the book is organized (at least not completely), listing the page number I'm on doesn't really serve a purpose." — Jan 25, 2016 08:18AM

Jan 25, 2016 08:16AM

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JPS Hebrew-English TANAKH

by Anonymous

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Oct 01, 2018 04:26AM

Lauren’s Quotes

“Funerals are for the living, I have always believed, and the job of the eulogist is to acknowledge the enormity of the loss they have just suffered and to help them appreciate that the legacy and accomplishments of their loved one have not died with them.”
― Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose

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“There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”
― Washington Irving

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“There was no one to blame but the mighty, ruthless stranger. Thus was complexity reduced to demonology, which is a defining feature of anti-Americanism, anti-Semitism, or, indeed, any "anti-ism.”
― Josef Joffe

tags: anti-americanism, antisemitism, bias, prejudice

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“If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.”
― Steve Wozniak

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“Men always praise antiquity and fault the present, although not always reasonably, and they are partisans of things past such that not only do they celebrate those ages that they know from what historians have preserved of them, but also those that as old men they recall having seen in their youth. And if this opinion of theirs is false, as it is most of the time, I am persuaded that there are various causes that lead them into this deception.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince and Other Writings

tags: ageing, history, memory, nostalgia, time

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