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" You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

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" Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century. "

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" Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated. "

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" In the years to come, the combination of climate change and population growth could have a devastating effect on the planet and, needless to say, on humanity. "

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