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Jim Fonseca

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Jim’s Quotes

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein

tags: confidence, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, life, life-philosophy, optimism, power-of-words

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“If it was true what her mother had once told her, then nothing rang the telephone like death in the middle of the night.”
― Edward P Jones

3 likes

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

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Jim’s Groups

Maigret (Jim and Ebba Buddy Read) — 2 members — last activity May 29, 2023 04:51PM
The Misty Harbour

Portuguese-American & Portuguese-Canadian Literature — 33 members — last activity Apr 20, 2020 08:11AM
This group, dedicated to Portuguese-American and Portuguese-Canadian Literature, focuses on the increasingly present literary conversation between the ...more

Around the World in 80 Books — 28788 members — last activity 2 hours, 48 min ago
Reading takes you places. Where in the world will your next book take you? If you love world literature, translated works, travel writing, or explorin ...more

South Shore Readers — 496 members — last activity Oct 01, 2024 04:50AM
A group for book lovers from the South Shore area of Massachusetts. We can discuss area bookstores, libraries, favorite books, book-related events, bo ...more

Reading the Classics — 4075 members — last activity Nov 06, 2023 06:31AM
This is a group for people who want to read the classics and discuss them as a group. Each month we will choose as a group a book to read. Everyone is ...more

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