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Beyond the Wall: A History of East Germany

by Katja Hoyer

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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

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by Philippe Claudel

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“We are such spendthrifts with our lives, the trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.”
― Paul Newman

tags: buddhism, environment, farmer, inspirational, sainthood, sustainability

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“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.

[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: books, censorship, freedom-of-thought, libraries

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“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

[Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence

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“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

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