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“They curtailed the education of the people as needless and too expensive. When the people complained, they placated them by abolishing all grades above the primary and turning the schools into dance halls and free moving-picture theaters.”
― The Heads of Cerberus
― The Heads of Cerberus
“As often happens when a nationalist leader is elected to office by vilifying other ethnic groups, a wave of racism swept across the country.”
― Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
― Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
“Democracy itself has always been loud and raucous, but when its rules are followed, it eventually creates consensus. The modern debate does not. Instead, it inspires in some people the desire to forcibly silence the rest.”
― Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
― Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
“They looted my country. Scavengers, this dictator we have now chief among them. Practically pulled the wires from the walls of headquarters to sell for scrap. Imagine if someone turned the nation you loved into one big mafiya. Murdered anyone who stood in their way, for greed alone.”
― The Night Agent
― The Night Agent
“Roughly 97 percent of the globe’s water is saltwater. Of the 3 percent or so that is freshwater, most is locked up in the polar ice caps or trapped so far underground it is inaccessible. And of the sliver left over that exists as surface freshwater readily available for human use, about 20 percent of that—one out of every five gallons available on the planet—can be found in the Great Lakes.”
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
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