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eppur_se_muova

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13. I heartily encourage DUers to read "Mountains Beyond Mountains", to see what can happen when people geniunely try to do

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2026, 10:23 PM

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as much good in their lives as they can.

Dr. Farmer had an unconventional childhood. It may have been an important contributor to his character. Such things are risky, but sometime produce surprisingly mold-breaking results.

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... SheltieLover 11 hrs ago #1

Required reading in an 80s college class BlueWaveNeverEnd 11 hrs ago #2

along with a couple of others lapfog_1 9 hrs ago #7

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I wonder how the book would read today..still relevant or dated BlueWaveNeverEnd 6 hrs ago #11

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I heartily encourage DUers to read "Mountains Beyond Mountains", to see what can happen when people geniunely try to do eppur_se_muova 5 hrs ago #13

We had those Data General machines in the 1980's. jeffreyi 5 hrs ago #14

I worked at Data General around the time this book was written. nclib 1 hr ago #15