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Dee Turner is currently reading

Throne of Jade (Temeraire, #2)

by Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)

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“In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man”
― Mark Twain

tags: humor

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“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”
― Carl Hiaasen

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“Concorde fallacy,” the conviction that it’s less wasteful to keep on throwing money into a failing project than to cut your losses and do something else.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

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“Thus the tired fantasy of cheap, abundant nuclear power needs to be buried alongside the Eisenhower-era propagandists who dreamed it up in the first place.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

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“A glance back over our past shows clearly enough that who won, who lost, who ended up ruling a society, and who ended up enslaved or exterminated by that same society, was not determined by moral virtue or by the justice of one or another cause but by the crassly pragmatic factors of military, political, and economic power.”
― John Michael Greer, Dark Age America: Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead

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