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Darwin's Radio (Darwin's Radio, #1)

by Greg Bear

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“You’re supposed to be objective. What use is the news if it’s not objective?”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“She smiled. “I love that old song about Muhlenberg County; John Denver did it, I think.”
“Him and a dozen others. But John Prine wrote and sang the original. It’s one of our claims to fame.”
She quietly began to sing under her breath, “Daddy…won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County…”
― James Aura, The Cumberland Killers: A Kentucky Mystery

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“The human decision to domesticate fire was not logical, yet they did it.”
― James Aura, The Hurricane Code

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“We all lived for money, and that is what we died for.”
― William T. Vollmann, No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies

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“Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products and services as possible.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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