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Unless you truly believed in something to the deepest depth of your being, as did Delamater, all men were whores in the end. There was an old joke that had always struck Delamater as defining of the human species. A man asks a woman if she would sleep with him for ten million dollars. She agrees. He then asks if she would sleep with him for a dollar. She is aghast. "What kind of woman do you take me for?" she asks. To that, the man responds..
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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves, by Matt Ridley The Better Angels of our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker, Harvard Professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Abundance: The Future is Better Than you Think, by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
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Politics, noun: [Poly 'many' + tics 'blood-sucking parasites']" --Larry Hardiman "We hang the petty thieves. The master thieves we appoint to public office." --Aesop "Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." --Gore Vidal"
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Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." --Gore Vidal"
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Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson
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And now that Martin was involved, she would actually be meeting a man who had skyrocketed to the top of the business world and was the darling of the media, replacing Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg before him. Eben Martin was larger than life.
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Robert Sawyer, James Gunn, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Ben Bova, and Alan Dean Foster.
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Faraday, Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics, by Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon.
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