Those statistical aggregates devastated me to tears when I first read them, and inspired me to take direct concrete action.

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But first, let me read a quote that I saw today in The New York Times.

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In many ways, those things rankle me more now than they did when I first read the book in the third grade (and made a mean shoebox diorama to boot).

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" "Berry's first wife taught me about notes and chords, so I can read music today.

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For me, his writings are first class vittles for the mind and I read them often.

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Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self-understanding.

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You can let me narrow things down by genre or keywords, and you can collect data on how much I read of a first chapter, or how fast I move on to the next blind date, to see just how well I get on with any given book so that you can tailor the next blind date to my evolving preferences.

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