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ChatGPT Shortcuts shows future prompt engineers how to harness the full potential of the state-of-the-art AI model through practical tips, real-world examples, and expert guidance. The shortcuts in this collection help users leverage ChatGPT and all of its latest features as a dynamic AI tool for writing, generating art, coding, and app development. For those looking to take their ChatGPT skills to the next level, these shortcuts teach the techniques...
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As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance -character traits, which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American.
In this next installment of the highly successful Bite-Size series, Bite-Size Franklin draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Franklin's intimate...
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President Lincoln's thoughts on an astounding range of subjects have not only become classic observations about the human condition in turn-of-the-century America, but also continue to amuse, teach, and inspire us today.
Like the highly successful Bite-Size Einstein and Bite-Size Twain, Bite-Size Lincoln is a compilation of this historic American's famous and eloquent words. A hard life on the American frontier taught Lincoln common sense and a healthy...
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This book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of writers are represented, including Bakunin, Mencken, the Marxes, (Groucho and Karl), Twain, Reich, Voltaire, Shaw, Chomsky, Diderot, Bookchin, Goldman, Berkman, Paine,...
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Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary Legend
Mark Twain...
On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
On truth and lies: many when they come to...
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Jane Austen's novels are filled with wide-ranging commentary from all parts of life. Her sharp-witted and intelligent characters have provided us with memorable quotes time and time again.
Finally Austen's sense and sensibility has been compiled in one compact book. In Bite-Size Jane Austen we get her thoughts and words on society, men and women, the arts and writing, business and politics, England, family matters and on the human condition.
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2023.
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This collection of quotations--heartfelt thoughts and memories discovered in letters, journals, diaries, memoirs and other original sources--by writers, leaders and legends captures the profound connection we share with our animal companions and also provides comfort for those who have lost a pet.
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El incidente tuvo lugar el 25 de junio de 1986. Andrés es un camionero que tiene que repartir niacina desde Bilbao a Murcia. Suele viajar solo, pero como el curso está llegando a su fin y su hijo Juan Pedro está sacando buenas notas, su mujer Carmen y su niño de 9 años decidieron viajar con él. Andrés y Carmen murieron al chocar un camión a primera hora de la mañana a la altura de Somosierra. Cuando la Guardia Nacional llamó a la familia...
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Alice Calaprice is a renowned expert on Albert Einstein and was a longtime senior editor at Princeton University Press. She has worked with the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein since the founding of the project, has copyedited and overseen the production of all the volumes, and administered the accompanying translation series with a grant from the National Science Foundation. She is the author of several popular books on Einstein and was a recipient...
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La ansiedad es una dolencia que afecta a un gran número de seres humanos de todas las edades provocando diversas deficiencias y trastornos que pueden tener muchas causas, siendo el estrés una de las más importantes. Sin embargo, en la raíz de esas causas, el miedo-lo opuesto al amor-parece ser la fuente más importante de ansiedad.
Cristo, el hijo de Dios, cuando vino a este mundo como Jesús de Nazaret nos invitó a no afanarnos para nada en...
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A compendium of
quotes and riffs from more than four decades of writing by P.J. O'Rourke on
subjects ranging from government ("Giving money and power to politicians is
like giving car keys and whiskey to teenage boys") to fishing ("a sport
invented by insects and you are the bait") to apps ("we need a no-app app-let's
call it a nap") to be published on what would have been his 75th
birthday. "P. J. O'Rourke was the funniest writer of
his generation,...
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From the author of the national bestseller F in Exams comes a new compendium of hilarious and inventive wrong test answers and homework hiccups.
F for Effort features hilarious gems from elementary school ("two halves make a whale"), middle school (Q: What does "germinate" mean? A: To become a German citizen), and high school (Q: Fossil fuels are usually associated with which major type of rock? A: Classic rock). These 250 examples of creative invention...
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Fernande habite à Binche, ville de carnaval synonyme de fête, mais elle pourrait aussi bien habiter à Mons, Charleroi, Namur, Liège, Arlon ou dans n'importe quelle autre ville ou village de Wallonie ! Et même à Bruxelles. Fernande, c'est ma voisine. La vraie et la sublimée. La sublime aussi. Fernande, c'est la voisine qu'on a tous un peu. Celle qui nettoie son trottoir à six heures du matin en tablier, celle qui parle plus à son chien qu'à...
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and laxative on the same night.
Aunty Acid is the sassy senior created to give "the crazy old lady in all of us" a voice that can be heard from ten blocks away. With her long-suffering husband Walt, Aunty Acid tells it like it is and has her own unique opinions on everything.
Her fanbase is growing by over 1,000 a day as word on her wit and sassy sayings spreads across the internet where she reaches...
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From thankless Thanksgiving turkeys and confusing Christmas conundrums, to less-than-happy Hanukkah horrors and New Year's meltdowns, Wreck the Halls has an icing-smeared disaster for every occasion. With additional chapters on Black Friday, family communication, and navigating the murky waters of politically correct cake greetings (Winter!), Wreck the Halls combines Jen Yates's signature blend of wit and sarcasm with the most hilarious frosting fails...
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