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Get the Summary of Ingrid Fetell Lee's Joyful in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In "Joyful," Ingrid Fetell Lee explores the transformative power of color and light on human emotions and behaviors. She recounts how Edi Rama, the former mayor of Tirana, Albania, revitalized the city by painting buildings in bright colors, leading to positive changes in the community. Lee connects this to the universal happiness bright...
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#1 The following is a reprint of the Helen Zimmern translation from German into English of Beyond Good and Evil, as published in The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche. Some adaptations from the original text were made to format it into an e-text.
#2 All philosophers, in so far as they have been dogmatists, have failed to understand women. The seriousness and clumsy...
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#1 James Swan was a diarist who lived in North Carolina during the American Revolution. His journal covers the period from the 1760s to the 1790s, and it's full of neat details about everyday life in North Carolina in the 18th century. His diary is available online. I find him to be a fascinating character, and I think that you will, too, if you read his story in its...
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#1 Sex and gender are subsets of nature. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender without first clarifying our attitude towards nature. We are not nature's favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force.
#2 Sex is a far darker power than feminism has admitted. It is the point of contact between man and nature,...
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#1 The myth of the Dr. No art heist is that a rich and sophisticated thief has commissioned a museum robbery, and that the art ends up in his private lair. In reality, art theft is typically committed by common criminals associated with local crime rings. The most common misconception about art theft is that it is committed by a rich and sophisticated thief. In reality,...
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#1 In June 1940, the Germans invaded Poland, signaling the beginning of another European war. In April, Hitler announced that Britain was next in line for attack. The country had been preoccupied by the worst economic depression in its history.
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#1 It is safe to say that I was the only Muslim kid in my neighborhood who got to watch MTV after my parents cut the cable. I was not practicing dance moves, but I was learning the different directions my limbs could flail in.
#2 The dance marathon was a phenomenon that began in the 1920s. It was largely in farm towns, but as carnivals and fairs began growing along the...
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#1 Pay attention when you read a book. The power of story is so embedded in our lives that we are completely desensitized to its weird and witchy power. To experience its fascination, you must concentrate and resist the suction of alternate worlds. But you can do this! It's not too late to save yourself. Well, it's never too late to try, anyway. It's never too late to...
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#1 The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers pocket-size books that are concise and beautifully produced. Each book in the series delivers a point of access to complex ideas.
#2 Wendell Phillips, a 70-year-old Massachusetts orator, writer, and abolitionist, gave a speech at Harvard University in 1881 for the Centennial Meeting of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society....
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#1 Marie de Médicis, Countess of René, was one of the most powerful women in France. Her mother, Antoinette de Bourbon, was the daughter of King François I and Queen Claude. Her father, Claude de Guise, was the brother of the king's best friend, Jean de Lorraine.
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#1 I went to a bookstore in Paris, and the clerk was collecting coins from a wishing well. The books were written in Russian. I bought a copy of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man”.
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#1 I've been crying in bathrooms ever since I read Charlotte's Web as a kid.
#2 I was shy, and I didn't speak. I became so consumed with reading that I almost didn't speak to anyone for years.
#3 I was torn from my father's arms at age two weeks, and my parents got a divorce when I was nine years old. I was devastated, and my father and I had always been close.
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#1 The story of how we remember is like a bottomless well. We use our memory to light up the past, first our own, and then ask old people to tell us what they remember. We then look for letters written by people who are already dead.
#2 The history of the world is the story of how everything came to be the way it is today. It all goes back much further than just the...
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#1 Americans used to be a gritty people who made their own stuff. But now, we are losing our individuality. We are becoming too safety conscious to do things like roll around in the back of a station wagon if the old man takes a turn too fast in the family truckster.
#2 The things I hauled the most in my piece-of-shit pickup were ass and grass. No one rode for free.
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#1 The English lawyer Henry Crabb Robinson met the English painter and printmaker William Blake at a dinner party in London in 1825. Over the course of the evening, he became fascinated by Blake's casual conversation about his relationship with the spirit world.
#2 Robinson was initially confused by Blake, but he couldn't bring himself to dismiss him as a simple madman....
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