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“They curtailed the education of the people as needless and too expensive. When the people complained, they placated them by abolishing all grades above the primary and turning the schools into dance halls and free moving-picture theaters.”
― Francis Stevens, The Heads of Cerberus

“Up until the final buzzer, Coach used to tell us, you can always turn things around. Play like that. Play like you believe it's possible, even when you're down by twenty.”
― Karen Russell, The Antidote

“All that Democrat/Republican stuff is bullshit," he said. "And as far as liberal versus conservative, well, people are very promiscuous in the way the use those words. They don't really mean anything. Within those two camps there are very wide divisions. And between those two camps, there is a lot more overlap than you think. None of that bullshit really matters. The only thing that matters is values.”
― Neal Stephenson, Interface

“As often happens when a nationalist leader is elected to office by vilifying other ethnic groups, a wave of racism swept across the country.”
― Joel Richard Paul, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times