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“We don’t study as children, and we don’t make our kids study when we’re parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools—like peace and quiet at home—to succeed.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“The past requires not only that we study it and know it, but also that we learn its lessons - for this simple reason: evil is not just a thing of the past.”
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
― The Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust
“But women have to give hard thought to the men we'll wind up with. Make a mistake and get a drunk, a spendthrift, a cruel man. A man who won't keep his word. ... In marriage, man and woman become one, and that one is the husband.”
― America's First Daughter
― America's First Daughter
“And let me make the radical statement that I don’t believe that you can say something profound in the 140 characters that make up a tweet.”
― Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
― Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In
“Maladict had hallucinations, but Wazzer had a certainty you could bend steel around. It was the opposite of a hallucination, somehow. It was as if she could see what was real and you couldn't.”
― Monstrous Regiment
― Monstrous Regiment
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