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“It began in a post thread kicked off in 2052, a literal moonshot by a collective of frustrated friends from all corners – former thinkers for big names gone bankrupt, starry-eyed academics who wanted to do more than teach the past, government bureau members whose governments no longer existed. If you want to do good science with clean money and clean hands, they argued, if you want to keep the fire burning even as flags and logos came down, if you understand that space exploration is best when it’s done in the name of the people, then the people are the ones who have to make it happen. And we did.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“Don't believe the lie of individual trees, each a monument to its own self-made success. A forest is an interdependent community. Resources are shared, and life in isolation is a death sentence.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“At some point, you have to accept the fact that any movement creates waves, and the only other option is to lie still and learn nothing.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“We have found nothing you can sell. We have found nothing you can put to practical use. We have found no worlds that could be easily or ethically settled, were that end desired. We have satisfied nothing but curiosity, gained nothing but knowledge.
To me, these are the noblest goals.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To me, these are the noblest goals.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would mean starvation. Crawling back into the husk would provide no shelter. It is a paradox -- the impossibility of reclaiming that which lies behind, housed within a form comprised entirely of the repurposed pieces of that same past. We exist where we begin, yet to remain there is death... I could not have predicted each version of me that I shifted into, but through my history, one constant has always remained true: change itself... I did not know who she was, the one waiting for me to start moving toward her. I was curious about her, all the same. I was eager to meet her.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Allison’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Allison’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,152 books
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117 friends
3,011 books
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183 friends
248 books
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53 friends
1,318 books
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56 friends
652 books
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41 friends
210 books
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15 friends
417 books
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10 friends
754 books
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203 friends
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