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"The ease. Us, the children...I never realized how easily people could be trained to accept slavery" (p. 101).

"Keeping people stupid is a good way of controlling them, but it's a tough trick to pull off."

Really enjoying it so far. I like that it goes back and forth between Koli on his quest and Spinner back at Mythen Rood.

Slow-going.

Rereading a favorite series in anticipation of possibly going to Cornwall next year!

Interesting to see how numbers can skew results and the interconnectedness of different professions that are going into combatting and knowing more about the climate problem.

"To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science" (p. 360).

Looking forward to picking up this series again...

"Legislators are constantly required to balance their own religious beliefs with the positions of their constituents." I don't think this happens anymore.

"A government cannot be of the people, by the people, & for the people if wide swathes of the people have no seat at the table, if large parts of the country feel like there is literally no one in the government who can understand what they're going through."

"But it was no wonder these doomed infant turtles were such popular pets. A baby turtle fits perfectly into a child's hand. (And also elsewhere -- which was why some kids were getting salmonella, and the sale of turtles less than 4 inches long, the width of a child's open mouth, was banned in 1975." Wow! If anyone recalls Judy Blume's "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," it actually happened in real life...woah.