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"If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize, and die, we need the stars... when we have no difficult long term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness"
— Aug 14, 2022 08:17AM
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Ryan
is on page 361 of 406
People are desperate for someone who seems to know where they’re going” - this book was so prescient the similarities with Trump and America today around a similar time period are just utterly shocking
— Dec 19, 2025 03:57PM
Ryan
is on page 169 of 406
In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you're doing"
— Aug 14, 2022 07:59AM
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An unpleasant thing should be done quickly if it must be done at all" - this is one of the truest truisms I know
— Jul 06, 2022 09:37PM
Ryan
is on page 98 of 406
"We know that some Christian American types would be happy to silence all women... woman was to be treasured, honored, and protected, but that for her own sake, she must be silent and obey the will of her husband... the woman could be silent or be silenced" regarding cutting out womens tongues. This book is sci-fi but current day America is not too far away, terrifying and a call to radical action.
— Jul 01, 2022 09:43PM
