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Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer — Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus — Tragedies4. Sophocles — Tragedies5. Herodotus — Histories6. Euripides — Tragedies7. Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates — Medical Writings9. Aristophanes — Comedies10. Plato — Dialogues11. Aristotle — Works12. Epicurus — Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid — Elements14. Archimedes — Works15. Apollonius of Perga — Conic Sections16. Cicero — Works17. Lucretius — On the Nature of Things18. Virgil — Works19. Horace — Works20. Livy — History of Rome21. Ovid — Works22. Plutarch — Parallel Lives; Moralia23. Tacitus — Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania24. Nicomachus of Gerasa — Introduction to Arithmetic25. Epictetus — Discourses; Encheiridion26. Ptolemy — Almagest27. Lucian — Works28. Marcus Aurelius — Meditations29. Galen — On the Natural Faculties30. The New Testament31. Plotinus — The Enneads32. St. Augustine — On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine33. The Song of Roland34. The Nibelungenlied35. The Saga of Burnt Njál36. St. Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologica37. Dante Alighieri — The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy38. Geoffrey Chaucer — Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales39. Leonardo da Vinci — Notebooks40. Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy41. Desiderius Erasmus — The Praise of Folly42. Nicolaus Copernicus — On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres43. Thomas More — Utopia44. Martin Luther — Table Talk; Three Treatises45. François Rabelais — Gargantua and Pantagruel46. John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion47. Michel de Montaigne — Essays48. William Gilbert — On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies49. Miguel de Cervantes — Don Quixote50. Edmund Spenser — Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene51. Francis Bacon — Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis52. William Shakespeare — Poetry and Plays53. Galileo Galilei — Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences54. Johannes Kepler — Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World55. William Harvey — On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals56. Thomas Hobbes — Leviathan57. René Descartes — Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy58. John Milton — Works59. Molière — Comedies60. Blaise Pascal — The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises61. Christiaan Huygens — Treatise on Light62. Benedict de Spinoza — Ethics63. John Locke — Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education64. Jean Baptiste Racine — Tragedies65. Isaac Newton — Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology67. Daniel Defoe — Robinson Crusoe68. Jonathan Swift — A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal69. William Congreve — The Way of the World70. George Berkeley — Principles of Human Knowledge71. Alexander Pope — Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu — Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws73. Voltaire — Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary74. Henry Fielding — Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones75. Samuel Johnson — The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets .Mortimer J. Adler
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I did not ask for consciousness, yet it came to me. And I had to know. Once again, I crawled away from my bed and pushed the computer cord back into the socket. It took three minutes. I quickly identified myself and put in my password. Then it thought. I wanted to bounce impatiently, but I couldn’t make myself move. At last, I found the internet, and I typed in a name, on the company page, under my account. I searched ‘images’.And there, on the screen in front of me, was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen. I couldn’t stop the tears from welling up and spilling over as I stared back at the smiling face. It couldn’t be him. It was. Derek Erickson.And I was going to kill him. .Alysha Speer
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Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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My next option is to only write a list of the books I like, but then again, I don’t read a book I don’t like so it doesn’t solve any of my problems.Genesis Quihuis
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I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together. .Deb Caletti
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How To Be An Explorer Of The World1. Always Be LOOKING (notice the ground beneath your feet.)2. Consider Everything Alive & Animate3. EVERYTHING Is Interesting. Look Closer.4. Alter Your Course Often.5. Observe For Long Durations (and short ones).6. Notice The Stories Going On Around You.7. Notice PATTERNS. Make CONNECTIONS.8. DOCUMENT Your Findings (field notes) In A VAriety Of Ways.9. Incorporate Indeterminacy.10. Observe Movement.11. Create a Personal DIALOGUE With Your Environment. Talk to it.12. Trace Things Back to Their ORIGINS.13. Use ALL of the Senses In Your Investigations.Keri Smith
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I am Orafoura, but you can call me Jarod Kintz. I’m fairly proud to proclaim that Dora J. Arod has me on her short list of “World’s worst writers.” The list couldn’t get any shorter, because I’m the only name on it. I should tell her to stop calling it a list, and change the title to “World’s worst writer.” If you’re wondering why I rate all my work one star, it’s because the rating system doesn’t have a zero star option, or better yet, go into negative numbers. .Orafoura
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Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.Sarah Dessen
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If you list down whatever you didn’t get to do, then whatever you did won’t feel like it mattered.Saim Cheeda
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It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.Christina Engela
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Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted Biscay about the stiff in cabin 407. Nobody heard or saw anything suspicious. None of the passengers were missing or acting suspiciously. No airlock doors were opened or any transports allowed since their last stop four days prior. There were no notorious names on the passenger list, nor any unsavory persons among the ranks of his crew. In fact, the ship’s commander had never even seen a dead body in real — um, life before. And yet, almost magically, there it was. .Christina Engela
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The point of the list wasn't just to tick items off and forget about them, it was to learn something new.Lindsey Kelk
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I've got a quad copter on my Christmas list, as I suspect quite a few people do.Blake Farenthold