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“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ― Ernest Hemingway #BookSky

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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” ― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims #BookSky

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“For many have won a great name through the mistaken beliefs of the multitude—and what can be imagined more shameful than that?” ― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy #BookSky

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“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so; and on the other hand, nothing brings happiness unless you are content with it.” ― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy #BookSky

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“The half-informed man is not the man who knows only the half of things, but the man who only half knows things.” ― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods #BookSky

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“We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.” ― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods #BookSky

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“It's work, son," Father said. "That's what money is; it's hard work.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farmer Boy #BookSky

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“It was as if the press in America, for all its vaunted independence, were a great colonial animal, an animal made up of countless clustered organisms responding to a central nervous system.

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“Americans rewarded George Washington with the presidency. Indeed, the Electoral College unanimously backed Washington in 1789; every single elector who participated cast a vote for America’s George.

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“Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself.” ― William Shakespeare, Henry VIII #BookSky

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“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ― Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business #BookSky

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in the weeks before Trump took office and issued an executive order barring censorship by federal government employees, the FBI set out to do just that.

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“...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently be submerged in the interests of group cohesion,

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Federal employees eyeing a shift to the private sector as DOGE offers buyouts should consider networking and cutting their résumés way back.

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“Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be feared. Have you a precedent Of this commission? I believe, not any.

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“Whenever I meet people for the first time, I get them to talk for ten minutes. Then I size them up from the exact opposite perspective of all they’ve told me.

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“I watch and I wonder and I think. I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free.

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“One of the best things you can do in this world is take a nap in the woods” ― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow #BookSky

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“I could hardly bear to read the newspaper, which filled me with disloyalty and unbelief. We were, as we said again, making war in order to make peace.

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“Obviously other ones did exist such as basketball, but not in Lee County. Any sport that’s not football around here is like vanilla. Why even eat that, if they’ve invented flavors.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead #BookSky

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“The Peggot aunts must have seized the equipment because the music was oldies, Michael Jackson and Prince.” ― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead #BookSky

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“Miss Barks finished up and handed over a big yellow envelope. He asked was his check in there. She said he could look for it in the mail like always. I couldn’t believe she was going to leave me with Freddy Krueger, but she gave me those same eyes I’d seen on Mom a million times: Sorry.

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“the purpose of this book is, in part, to combat the cultural politics, both Left and Right, that are destroying criticism and consequently may destroy literature itself.” ― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages #BookSky

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“She said Purdue looked at data and everything with their computers, and hand-picked targets like Lee County that were gold mines.

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“Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life,

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“Okay, I like helping kids learn to see what they’re looking at. But really and truly? I always hoped one day a spark would come along, that I could fan into a flame. Some whole new vision that the world actually needs.”

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“only a few handfuls of students now enter Yale with an authentic passion for reading. You cannot teach someone to love great poetry if they come to you without such love. How can you teach solitude?

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just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

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“Most people come to New York to be discovered. The rest of us come here to hide.” ― Colleen Hoover, Verity #BookSky

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A lack of consistent policies and protocols by the VA for administering private-sector health care for veterans is leading to medical records not being transferred, denials for appointments and a lack of understanding about reimbursements for clinicians who are not part of the VA system.

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“Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life,

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“Yet, despite a tremendous increase in available facts, there were remarkably few insights.” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger #BookSky

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