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“After working for the agency and observing the miscalculations and overt corruption, I’ve found it necessary to expose the exploitative actions carried out in the name of “helping children.” Because we do live in a world where parents abuse their children, it is imperative to acknowledge that the agency tasked with protecting these children”
― Carlos Morales, Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services

“Madame Defarge immediately called to her husband that she would get them, and went, knitting, out of the lamplight, through the courtyard”
― Charles Dickens

“Phosphorus is added to
streams and enters the lake. Algae
growth is stimulated, and a dense
layer forms. (c) The algae layer
becomes so dense that the algae at
the bottom die. Bacteria feed on the
dead algae and use up the oxygen.
Finally, fish die from lack”
― Daniel B. Botkin, Environmental Science: Earth as a Living Planet

“A big idea comes along at just the moment when the technology exists to implement it.”
― Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution