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Books
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Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Chapter 21

... the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...

Chapter 25

Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales

Aesop proverbs

The place for memorable excerpts from favorite authors and timeless books!

A Christmas memory
Truman Capote

The Martian chronicles
Ray Bradbury

Love of life
Jack London

The plague
Albert Camus

Their eyes were watching God
Zora Neale Hurston

All quite on the western front
Erich Maria Remarque

The last American man
Elizabeth Gilbert

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Documentary books of interest/Excerpts
Politics		Society
The Looming tower Lawrence Wright		The social animal David Brooks
The one percent doctrine Ron Suskind		The tyranny of dead ideas Matt Miller
Fiasco Thomas E. Ricks		Guns, germs, and steel Jared Diamond
The end of Iraq Peter W. Galbraith		Collapse Jared Diamond
Imperial hubris Michael Scheuer		The third chimpanzee Jared Diamond
Plan of attack Bob Woodward		Why is sex fun? Jared Diamond
State of denial Bob Woodward		Committed Elizabeth Gilbert
Obama's wars Bob Woodward		Freakonomics S. Levitt & S. J. Dubner
Common sense Thomas Paine		Superfreakonomics S. Levitt & S. J. Dubner
Warrior Politics Robert D. Kaplan		The tipping point Malcolm Gladwell
The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli		Outliers Malcolm Gladwell
		A Short History of Nearly Everything Bill Bryson
		The revenge of God Gilles Kepel
		Orientalism Edward Said

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