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Nat is Currently Reading

Nat is currently reading

Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)

by Liane Moriarty (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: contemporary, domestic-thriller, currently-reading

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Apr 12, 2026 12:28PM

Nat’s Notes & Highlights

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

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There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from.

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Nat’s Quotes

“We are a divided country, but we are even more divided in our minds than in reality.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

tags: philosophy, political

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“Real political change happens with political work.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

tags: change, philopsophy, political

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“For at least the last few hundred years, it is the fate of conservatives to always be losing, but not quite yet. And it is the fate of progressives to always be winning, but not fast enough. The result is that progressives are winning, but only conservatives can see it. So everyone is miserable.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

tags: change, political, progress

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“our cognitive systems value self-protection, sometimes more than reason.”
― Keith Payne, Good Reasonable People: The Psychology Behind America's Dangerous Divide

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