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#1

“You can’t manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: controlling-others, manipulation, thinkers

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#2

“But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: children-and-education, common-core, educational-philosophy

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#3

“Education can so easily unseat one’s confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: education, truth, truths-of-life, worldly-knowledge

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#4

“This is what politics is about, right? We help the people discover the threat to their security, then we provide them with a solution.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: politics, security-state

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#5

“This way I’m ‘honored’ without anyone having to actually do, concede, admit, sacrifice, or change anything significant. They just tack a few meaningless letters up on a wall, some self-important men say some forgettable words, a few people cheer without knowing why but do so because it’s expected, and then everyone decides they’re satisfied. That, Peto, is politics.”
"That's rubbish!"
"Same thing.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: politics, politics-as-rubbish

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#6

“Remember this moment when you first realized that the government can’t properly take care of people. In fact, that’s never been their responsibility. They’re supposed to keep our borders safe so that we can live as we wish. It’s our responsibility—yours and mine and Zenos’s and everyone else’s—to take care of each other.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: government-responsibility, socialism

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#7

“That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: memory, power

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#8

“Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: vindictiveness, women-s-strength

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#9

“—fear comes only when you don’t have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there’s nothing new worth learning. I simply can’t understand how any of that will occur today.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: boredom, fear, learning-process

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#10

“Each person was in the power of the Creator, or could be turned over to be battered by the Refuser. Every soul was equal in the Creator’s eyes.
That was comforting and troubling at the same time.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: creator, equality-and-god

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#11

“There’s discipline, Mahrree knew, and then there’s abuse. The first works, while the second never does. And some people, like Lemuel Thorne, had no idea there was even a difference.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: abuse, discipline, discipline-and-punish

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#12

“After five or six weeks of listening to his sermons on healing and renewing, Edgers felt healed and renewed—especially after the caravan of supplies arrived from Idumea—and stopped attending. When the crisis was gone, so was the need to feel the Creator.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: crisis-and-attitude, crisis-of-faith, knowing-god

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#13

“No one’s ever successfully insulted him, because he refuses to be insulted. People do their best, but Yung won’t even acknowledge the attempt of an affront.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: being-offended, insult, taking-offense

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#14

“You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: controlling-others, illusion-of-control, sky-is-blue

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#15

“Group pressure is also a fascinating process to watch. Given enough arguments, time, and stress, even the most resolute and determined man can be made fearful enough to completely reverse his ideals to conform with everyone else.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: conformity, fear-of-men, group-pressure, peer-pressure

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#16

“That’s precisely what the governing body should NOT do—manage every detail of their lives. We are not their meddling grandmothers; we exist to keep them safe so they can make their own decisions, resolve their own problems, and live their own lives as their conscience dictates. We are NOT to become that conscience.”
― Trish Mercer, The Falcon in the Barn

tags: government-intervention, governmental-control, meddling-grandmothers, socialism

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