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Erica
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“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.”
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“The way kids learn to make good decisions is by making decisions, not by following directions.”
― Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
― Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Freedom from Fear
― Freedom from Fear
“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
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“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Erica’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Erica’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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36 friends
1,309 books
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1,309 books
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354 books
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302 books
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299 books
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859 books
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