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Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera

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‘the fortunes founded on slavery … shaped the structure of British life as decisively and irrevocably as had William the Conqueror’s gifts of land to his favoured knights.’

Hamlet

by William Shakespeare

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“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist; the threat is rather to life itself.”
― Rachel Carson, The Sea Around Us

tags: biology, curious, evolution, existence, life, ocean, science, sea, sinister, threat

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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: destruction, ecology, reality, universe, wonder

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