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#1 The beginning of the Bible tells the story of how God separated the waters, pushing some of them below to make oceans, rivers, dew drops, and springs. God then spoke the language of water, turning the rivers of enemies into blood.
#2 I was baptized by my father, who was a pastor but not a preacher, as a perk to having a father who was ordained but not a pastor. I...
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Get the Summary of Stephen A. Schwarzman's What It Takes in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: Schwarzman is also an active philanthropist, having given away more than a billion dollars. In philanthropy, as in business, he is drawn to situations where his capital and energy can be applied to drive transformative solutions and change paradigms, notably in education. He uses the skills...
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#1 The demands of work are beginning to interfere with the demands of being a friend, wife, daughter, and woman. If we don't learn how to integrate our personal, social, and professional lives, we'll become the angry woman on the other side of a mahogany desk who questions her staff's work ethic after standard 12-hour workdays.
#2 The two of us had already tried and...
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#1 I had to find a way to protect my former friend's identity, so I decided to use a pseudonym. I combed a naming dictionary for some rough translation of friend, and landed on Aldwin: old friend. I pictured a knight, an eleventh-century Norman invader, a sorcerer in a fantasy novel, a president of a Martha's Vineyard men's club, and a child of artfully tattooed parents.
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#1 The left has completely lost its mind. It is now authoritarian and puritanical, and it has replaced the battle of ideas with a battle of feelings. It has replaced honesty with outrage.
#2 I was a closeted gay man for twenty-five years, and it nearly broke me. I developed a habit of downing bottles of cheap red wine alone in my apartment. One day in September 2001,...
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Get the Summary of Jennifer Breheny Wallace's Never Enough in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In Never Enough, award-winning reporter Jennifer Breheny Wallace investigates the deep roots of toxic achievement culture, and finds out what we must do to fight back. Drawing on interviews with families, educators, and an original survey of nearly 6,000 parents, she exposes how the pressure...
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#1 I had won a championship that crowned me the top player of my class in EverQuest, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game. In the real world of my parents and friends, my win didn't mean much. But to my thirteen-year-old self, a nerd who always sucked at sports and never caught the attention of girls, it felt major.
#2 I was always late to catch on to things...
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#1 I moved to Iceland in 2003 when I was twenty-seven years old. I had been in graduate school at Oxford University in England, and I was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's, one of the colleges there. I was attracted to Gudni, who was the first Icelander to attend St. Antony's.
#2 Gudni, who was the president of the student association, was also the first divorcee I knew....
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#1 By the time Wayne and Kelly held their newborn sons in their arms, the couple had been married for five years. Kelly had suffered through multiple miscarriages and months of tedious and painful fertility treatments. Everything changed in 1997, when she got a phone call from her cousin Sarah, who was in trouble and didn't want to have an abortion.
#2 Kelly's...
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Book Preview: #1 I met Marco at the restaurant where we both worked. I was a waitress to make the money that did not seem to be materializing from my acting and modeling careers. Two years out of college, I had quit my job as an analyst at a hedge fund and decided to become a full-time actor.
#2 At the end of the training, we went to a local dive bar two blocks away. I sat next to...
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#1 I left Albania in 1994 for a new life in the United States. I had won a full scholarship to study at an American university. I was shocked when I received a letter congratulating me on winning a Fulbright scholarship to study advanced physics for one academic year at the University of Maryland in College Park.
#2 I had always wanted to be in the world of numbers and...
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#1 In America, we expect a bit more gravity than in other countries.
#2 I want to leave the doctor's office in tears, but instead I walk out feeling like a hypochondriac.
#3 I had my teeth implanted in a dentist's office in America. They were connected and were screwed in with a screwdriver. The pain wasn't bad, since I was already numb. The next day, I...
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#1 I began to experience a small pain in the back of my throat one spring day during my junior year of college. It gradually got worse over the next few months, and I began to visit other doctors. They all concluded there was nothing wrong with me. Yet my pain continued getting worse and worse, with no remedy in sight.
#2 I realized that I was at a crossroads. I could...
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Get the Summary of Eddie Jaku's The Happiest Man on Earth in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Born in Leipzig, Germany, into a Jewish family, Eddie Jaku was a teenager when his world was turned upside-down. On November 9, 1938, during the terrifying violence of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass, Eddie was beaten by SS thugs, arrested, and sent to a concentration camp with thousands...
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#1 I'm a thirty-something Virgo, living in Brooklyn, and I love Joan Didion. I'm also a single, thirty-something Virgo, living in Brooklyn, and I love writing. I'd kept a journal for twenty-one years and had published a book about the last decade of my life. I'd been writing for comparison's sake for most of my life. I'd graduated from journalism school decades ago,...
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