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THE PRICE OF BOOKS

George Orwell:
In any discussion of the price of books one must take two propositions as axiomatic.

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REVISITING THE PASTS IN THE PRESENT

This weekend I’m gathering with about a dozen friends with whom I attended high school more than 50 years ago.

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GENES: FATE AND CHOICE

Siddhartha Mukherjee:
Genes must carry out programmed responses to environments – otherwise, there would be no conserved form.

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CYCLING: INSIDE OR OUTSIDE?

I’ve spent many hours and miles on bicycles over the course of my life. I commuted to work by bicycle for most of my career, in all sorts of circumstances – some more risky than others.

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SO MANY WORDS, SO LITTLE TIME

I’ve long been frustrated by the fact that I’m not able (or willing?) to read all of the books and essays that I think I want to read.

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THE VALUE OF CIVILIZATION

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr:
… the chief worth of civilization is just that it makes the means of living more complex; that it calls for great and combined intellectual efforts, instead of simple, uncoordinated ones, in order that the crowd may be fed and clothed and housed and moved from place to place.

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