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On those visits, my mother and I walked in together but as soon as we passed through the door, we split up and each headed to our favorite section. The library might have been the first place I was ever given autonomy.
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Paul Fussell
“Happy are those who can relieve suffering with prayer Happy those who can rely on God to see them through. They can wait patiently for the end. But we who have put our faith in the goodness of man and now see man’s image debas’d lower than the wolf or the hog— Where can we turn for consolation? Owen”
Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory

Steven Pinker
“In 21st-century America, the control of Congress by a Republican Party that became synonymous with the extreme right has been pernicious, because it is so convinced of the righteousness of its cause and the evil of its rivals that it has undermined the institutions of democracy to get what it wants.”
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

“Whatever the anxiety is based upon, one of the best ways to minimize the anxiety of change—or any other anxiety—is to actively participate in the process of that change, i.e., to do something.” She declared it is necessary to become actively involved in the change rather than passively accepting and accommodating it.7 By”
Phyllis Povell, Montessori Comes to America: The Leadership of Maria Montessori and Nancy McCormick Rambusch

Steven Pinker
“Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.”
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Steven Pinker
“As has been said about science, sometimes society advances funeral by funeral.47”
Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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