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First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country

by Thomas E. Ricks

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Dec 30, 2023 06:59PM

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A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

by Howard Zinn

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Dec 30, 2023 06:48PM

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Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity

by Peter Attia (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 30, 2023 04:53PM

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

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“The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living.”
― George Orwell, Animal Farm and 1984

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“you are born to move with grace, born to embrace novelty and variety, born to crave wide-open spaces, and, above all, born to love. But one of the more profound facts that will emerge is that you are born to heal. Your body fixes itself. A big part of this is an idea called homeostasis, which is a wonderfully intricate array of functions that repair the wear and tear and stress of living.”
― John J. Ratey, Go Wild: Free Your Body and Mind from the Afflictions of Civilization

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