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Russ’s Notes & Highlights

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

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You can change the law but you can’t change people and how they treat each other.

I read this book right after Kendi’s “How to be an Anti Racist” and noticed a similar message. Changing policy is easier than trying to change everyone’s mind.

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Becoming

by Michelle Obama

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Russ’s Quotes

“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

tags: humor, scifi

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“It was written in some holy book, apparently, so that made it okay, and probably compulsory.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi

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