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Agriculture continued to be affected by the weather, so its growth rate fluctuated between -7.3 percent (1999) and 11.4 percent (2002).
“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...”
― Garden on the Moon
― Garden on the Moon
“Children are meant to grow up, and not to become Peter Pans. Not to lose innocence and wonder, but to proceed on the appointed journey: that journey upon which it is certainly not better to travel hopefully than to arrive, though we must travel hopefully if we are to arrive.”
― The Tolkien Reader
― The Tolkien Reader
“Innocence is a better world.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.”
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“For children, childhood is timeless. It is always the present. Everything is in the present tense. Of course, they have memories. Of course, time shifts a little for them and Christmas comes round in the end. But they don’t feel it. Today is what they feel, and when they say ‘When I grow up,’ there is always an edge of disbelief—how could they ever be other than what they are?”
― The Child in Time
― The Child in Time
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