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To my way of thinking, books had always been used to hurt and inflict pain. Books separated me from people like her and those two detectives, who used lawbooks to perpetrate wanton violence against poor people, and from greedy lawyers, who
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“He had grown up believing in America and the individual and it was a stronger faith than his faith in God. This was the land where no man had to bow. In this place at last a man could stand up free of the past, free of tradition and blood ties and the curse of royalty and become what he wished to become.”
― The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
― The Killer Angels: A Novel of the Civil War
“…[W]e have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war.”
― The Killer Angels
― The Killer Angels
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.”
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“Nostalgia for old fictions is the strongest nostalgia of all.”
― From Hell with Love
― From Hell with Love
“Nobody has ever found any genes linking ethnicity or race to school results. Like Henry Garrett half a century earlier, [Gerhard] Meisenberg chooses to skip over the social, historical, and economic aspects of racial inequality. Rather, he believes that scientific evidence that doesn't yet exist will explain the gaps eventually. He takes it as given that the answer must be biological.”
― Superior: The Return of Race Science
― Superior: The Return of Race Science
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