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		npc on Sept 16, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bill Gates: Books I Read this Summer nonfiction books rarely become "classics", that doesn't mean they're not important or worth reading.

gbog on Sept 17, 2012 [–]

Maybe we don't have the same definition for classics. To me the Bible is a classic, as are the Pensées de Pascal, or the Daodejing, or Shakespeare.

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