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Kristopher Underwood

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Kristopher’s Notes & Highlights

The House of Secrets by Brad Meltzer

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“Wait,” Hazel says. “Who’s Benedict Arnold?” Don’t they teach anything in school anymore? “He was a soldier,” Jack says. “During the Revolutionary War.” “A good guy or a bad guy?” “A complicated guy,” Jack says.

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Kristopher’s Quotes

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world

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“So if the world hates us, we take courage that it hated Jesus first. If you're wondering whether you'll be safe, just look at what they did to Jesus and those who followed him. There are safer ways to live than by being a Christian.”
― Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― John Donne, Meditation XVII - Meditation 17

tags: death

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“We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Bingo Palace

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