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“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
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“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.”
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“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”
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Vivien’s 2025 Year in Books
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