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The Young Will Remember

by Eve J. Chung (Goodreads Author)

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Animorphs Boxset: The Illusion / The Prophecy / The Proposal / The Mutation (Animorphs, #33-36)

by K.A. Applegate

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Becoming

by Michelle Obama (Goodreads Author)

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“The early Sumerian pictograph for god was an asterisk, the symbol of the stars. The early Aztec word for god was Teotl, and its glyph was a representation of the Sun. The heavens were called Teoatl, the godsea, the cosmic ocean.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“They became upright and taught themselves the use of tools, domesticated other animals, plants and fire, and devised language. The ash of stellar alchemy was now emerging into consciousness. At an ever-accelerating pace, it invented writing, cities, art and science, and sent spaceships to the planets and the stars. These are some of the things that hydrogen atoms do, given fifteen billion years of cosmic evolution.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” —Gustav Mahler”
― Earl Hutchinson, Beethoven and Me

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“In fact no gods anywhere play chess. They haven’t got the imagination. Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god’s idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

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“But why were there dryads at all? As far as he could recall, the tree people had died out centuries before. They had been out-evolved by humans, like most of the other Twilight Peoples. Only elves and trolls had survived the coming of Man to the discworld; the elves because they were altogether too clever by half, and the trollen folk because they were at least as good as humans at being nasty, spiteful and greedy. Dryads were supposed to have died out, along with gnomes and pixies.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

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