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King Arthur: History and Legend

by Dorsey Armstrong

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Edge of Dark Water

by Joe R. Lansdale (Goodreads Author)

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Heaven: A History

by Colleen McDannell

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Denny’s Quotes

“[T]hose who refuse to consider what they do are cloaked in the shadow of stupidity, but they enjoy the shade. It is cool and comfortable there.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Thicket

tags: the-thicket, willful-ignorance

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“The New World was settled to promote Christianity. For more than 150 years, colonial governments actively supported the dominant faith. Less acknowledged today is a point well understood by the Founding Fathers: Nearly all of these experiments in state encouragement of religion failed.”
― Steven Waldman, Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
― Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote

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“We are being bought off by our affair with the contemporary drug of choice: ease.”
― Colum McCann, Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice

tags: apathy, complacency, societal-decay

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“Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about—a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union—and take its side.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

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