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“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
“Legends were mostly bullshit, even his own, but they sometimes could be useful.”
― Black Fire
― Black Fire
“That’s what I love about boys,” Marion told him. “No matter what, you just go about your business.”
― A Widow for One Year
― A Widow for One Year
“They explained their concerns and she said, “I feel a kind of isolation that you’ll never be able to understand. What you see is a mere fraction of what’s happening inside, but at least my inner and outer worlds are reflecting each other. You wouldn’t want me to throw worlds off balance, would you?”
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“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”
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Mohammad’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Mohammad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
215 books
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107 books
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