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“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”
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“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
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“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Cosmos
― Cosmos
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”
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“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
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Jaime’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Jaime’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,814 books
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393 friends
422 books
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38 friends
1,473 books
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68 friends
1,583 books
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99 friends
2,386 books
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111 friends
1,595 books
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81 friends
762 books
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85 friends
299 books
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65 friends
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