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Had to go back and re-listen to the middle chapters several times because I got lost again and my brain switched off during the battle. Still, the revelation of the weird computer virus by the end of the novel did recapture my interest.
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Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by
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“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.”
― Small Gods
― Small Gods
“That man’s gaga,” said Roger when they were out of hearing. “He’s so far gone he’s coming back.”
― The Owl Service
― The Owl Service
“They’d come here with things to say, even if they didn’t know how to say them. The thing was to keep your head down. But if you did keep your head down, you’d drown in other people’s words.
“—fully taken into. Account; at every stage of the planning process—”
Johnny stood up, because it was that or drowning. He felt his head break through the tide of words, and he breathed in. And then out.
"Excuse me, please?”
― Johnny and the Dead
“—fully taken into. Account; at every stage of the planning process—”
Johnny stood up, because it was that or drowning. He felt his head break through the tide of words, and he breathed in. And then out.
"Excuse me, please?”
― Johnny and the Dead
“The working activities during childhood moratorium are disguised by pedagogical ideologies…. Learning is not understood as a type of work, whereby children contribute productively to the future social and economic development of the society. Only the adult work of teachers is emphasized as productive contribution to the development of human capital. The corresponding learning activities of pupils are thus defined, not as work but as a form of intellectual consumption. 5”
― Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
― Kids These Days: Human Capital and the Making of Millennials
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