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  1. Edith Hamilton _ The Greek Way

    The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.
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  2. James S.A. Corey _ Caliban's War

    We're all traitors now." "Ha!" the old lady said. "Only if we lose.
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  3. Alain de Botton _ The Art of Travel

    He {Wordsworth} invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through other eyes, to shuttle between the human and the natural perspective. Why might this be interesting, or even inspiring? Perhaps because unhappiness can stem from only having one perspective to play with.
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  4. Alain de Botton _ Religion for Atheists: A

    Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
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  5. Alister E. McGrath _ If I Had Lunch with C.S.

    Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world."
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  6. Alister E. McGrath _ C. S. Lewis: A Life: Eccentric

    The study of the past helps us to appreciate that the ideas and values of our own age are just as provisional and transient as those of bygone ages. The intelligent and reflective engagement with the thought of a bygone era ultimately subverts any notion of "chronological snobbery". Reading texts from the past makes it clear that what we now term "the past" was once "the present", which proudly yet falsely regarded itself as having found the right intellectual answers and moral values that had eluded its predecessors.
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  7. Walter Isaacson _ American Sketches: Great

    There should be an honored place in history for statesmen whose ideas turned out to be right.
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  8. Kate Elliott _ Cold Steel

    Can we ever see the truth when desire blinds us? Or do we call it the truth because it is what we wish to see?
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  9. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    The author points out that novices to total war, and this Hitler and the British press have in common, overreact to daily events and lose sight of overall strategy.
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  10. William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer

    The present is never tidy, or certain, or reasonable, and those who try to make it so once it becomes the past succeed only in making it seem implausible.
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  11. Neil Gaiman _ American Gods

    It's harder to pick and choose when you're dead. It's like a photograph, you know. It doesn't matter as much.
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  12. Seamus Heaney _ The Cure at Troy: A Version of

    Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.
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