Generation of Vipers (Seeds, #2)

by Peter Cawdron

What matters is—do we rush to the conclusion we want to be true? As that’s always a mistake. Whether we’re right or not is irrelevant. Sometimes we’re right. Sometimes we’re wrong. What’s always relevant is how we got to that goddamn conclusion.

Reason should be the touchstone, otherwise some superstitious wish will be the guide.

“Regardless of who is in the White House, we are one people.

Except for Loser45 and his horrible four years of lies, corruption, and insurrection. Good riddance!

clinging to anything that would float

Those tortoises themselves, due to their large lung capacity under the carapace of their shell, float fine with nothing supporting them.

“Imprints,” he says by way of explanation. “They can lift written text from imprints on subsequent pages.”

Better to take the blank page off the legal pad and write notes onto it while the page is sitting directly on the desk's or blotter's surface.

to yeet

What does this mean? What is the allusion?

Wasps can survive 300 times the lethal dose of radiation for humans!

Curious! And there's Deinococcus radiodurans.

Any time people move en masse, it’s always a cluster fuck. Always. The trick is not getting fucked by the chaos.

Quite true.

“War is about taking opportunities, not chances,”

Absolutely

Yelling might make her feel better, but it’s ineffective. It might embarrass some, but it’ll only harden others. She hopes her words are heeded, but the only person she can change is herself—and she accepts that.

This is wisdom.

He realized neither Germany nor Japan could compete with America’s industrial might.

In the 21st century China will take the mantle of supremacy from the Western nations.

His solution is simple—read.

And today's Republicans want to ban books that don't comport with their phony "faith".