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“Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

“Walmart has more annual revenue than Spain and more than twice as much as Russia.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents

“If you developed diphtheria, spotted fever, or the plague while you were in possession of a library book, you were required to inform the library, and the book had to be fumigated before it was put back in circulation, but the library covered the cost. Three”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Yet, by March 9, when Italy imposed its first lockdown, the country had suffered only about nine thousand coronavirus cases and five hundred deaths. With one of the world’s oldest populations and harsh northern winters, Italy regularly suffered severe winter flu epidemics. In the winter of 2014–2015 and again in 2016–2017, influenza and other flu-like illnesses had killed more than forty thousand Italians—eighty times as many as had died from the coronavirus at the time of the lockdown.”
― Alex Berenson, Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives