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36 voters
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_unread_and_reference (1)
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_unread_and_reference (1)
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z_shelves_tbd (247)
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(126)
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qa_mathematics-computer_science (62)
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“It is not an overstatement to say that the destiny of the entire human race depends on what is going on in America today. This is a staggering reality to the rest of the world; they must feel like passengers in a supersonic jetliner who are forced to watch helplessly while a passel of drunks, hypes, freaks, and madmen fight for the controls and the pilot's seat. – Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice, 1968”
― 1968: The Year that Rocked the World
― 1968: The Year that Rocked the World

“If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you’re pretty well done.”
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“The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.”
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“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
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