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“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“Populism offers the headless heart; ideology offers the heartless head.”
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“You show me a member of Congress who’s part of the appropriations process and I’ll show you a wife, child, or brother-in-law with a company that benefits from federal dollars.”
― The Terminal List
― The Terminal List
“You know what Trump is?’ ‘Tell me.’ ‘He’s Putin’s shithouse cleaner. He does everything for little Vladi that little Vladi can’t do for himself: pisses on European unity, pisses on human rights, pisses on NATO. Assures us that Crimea and Ukraine belong to the Holy Russian Empire, the Middle East belongs to the Jews and the Saudis, and to hell with the world order.”
― Agent Running in the Field
― Agent Running in the Field
“It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none.”
― Agent Running in the Field
― Agent Running in the Field
Simon’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Simon’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
4,378 books
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119 friends
607 books
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119 friends
676 books
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113 friends
1,215 books
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131 friends
139 books
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86 friends
382 books
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122 friends
696 books
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103 friends
154 books
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56 friends
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Favorite Genres
Art, Business, Classics, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Memoir, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Self help, and Nonfiction
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