Summy

“When you get older you’ll understand that sometimes appearances can be deceptive,’ she replies. ‘You can never really know a person, no matter how much you love them.”
― John Marrs, What Lies Between Us

“You push on men and eventually you get to the bedrock of it all, which is that they think they're better than us. And they're the ones who made this war. I've been thinking about that. We get angry and nothing happens. Men get angry, and the whole world burns up. Then when we want to do our part, they're always trying to keep us out of danger. Because heaven forbid we should be allowed to decide for ourselves. Their worst fear is that one day we'll end up owning our lives same as they do.”
― Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle

“Creating a PCR test for a new pathogen is a pretty easy task once you’ve sequenced its genome. Because you already know what its genes look like, you can create the special substances, dye, and other necessary products very quickly—which is why researchers were able to establish PCR tests for COVID just twelve days after the first genome sequences were published.”
― Bill Gates, How to Prevent the Next Pandemic

“One type of leader uses language (perhaps even unwittingly) to support frameworks that already exist; the other uses language, always deliberately, not to uphold the current order of things but instead to swoop in and create something tyrannically new. In the end, some problematic leaders are really just followers of the larger system. But a truly, destructively cultish leader is one who wishes to overthrow the system and replace it with something that grants them ultimate power.”
― Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism—Understanding the Social Science of Cult Influence