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Chris House
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Humans have such a powerful need that their own belief structure be the ‘true belief.’ If it gives you pleasure or a sense of security and if it is incorporated into your belief structure, what a powerful dependency that creates!”
“Motherhood was the dividing line between brilliant women who stayed in the work and those who did not. For a woman with children, there were few resources to make a career feasible. The nation lost talent that the war had developed.”
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
“[T]hat’s the thing about American governmental intervention: When it’s effective, it’s enveloped in a narrative of “American ingenuity and hard work”; when it’s ineffective, it’s proof of the fundamentally immoral nature of government assistance.”
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“There are things more important,” he told me, “than getting reelected.”
― A Promised Land
― A Promised Land
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.”
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“the women used these Enigma messages—along with files on individual U-boats and their commanders—to track, with pins, every U-boat and convoy whose location was known. At another desk, several other Goucher women, including Jacqueline Jenkins (later the mother of Bill Nye, aka Bill Nye the Science Guy), tracked “neutral shipping” based on daily position reports.”
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
― Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
Chris’s 2024 Year in Books
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