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The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

by Edward Chancellor

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A-Plus Notes for Beginning Algebra: Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1

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Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

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Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States by James C. Scott

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Charles Mann (1491) and Elizabeth Kolbert (The Sixth Extinction).

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“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god. ”
― Aristotle, Politics

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“But cruelty is an appetite that grows with feeding,”
― Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding

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“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.”
― William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

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“You are kept apart that you may be separately fleeced of your earnings. You are made to hate each other because upon that hatred is rested the keystone of the arch of financial despotism which enslaves you both. You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars both.”
― Thomas E Watson

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“For in the immediate world, everything is to be discerned, for him who can discern it, and central and simply, without either dissection into science, or digestion into art, but with the whole of consciousness, seeking to perceive it as it stands: so that the aspect of a street in sunlight can roar in the heart of itself as a symphony, perhaps as no symphony can: and all of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiation of what is.”
― James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

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