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Matt is Currently Reading

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The Will of the Many (Hierarchy, #1)

by James Islington (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 17, 2026 07:03AM

Matt’s Notes & Highlights

The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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And the ABC of conflict with society remains constant. Be audacious, be brave, be confident and you will not fail. Against these assets society can have no defense. Geoffry Reich

Debt: The First 5,000 Years

by David Graeber

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“You have as many lives as you have possibilities. There are lives where you make different choices. And those choices lead to different outcomes. If you had done just one thing differently, you would have a different life story. And they all exist in the Midnight Library. They are all as real as this life.’ ‘Parallel lives?’ ‘Not always parallel. Some are more . . . perpendicular.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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