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"The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse."

"if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty."

"if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty."

"That is how the European tribes operate, she said. If they can’t control it, they destroy it."

“Master said the only thing more dangerous than a nigger with a gun,” he told them, “was a nigger with a book. That must be a big pile of black powder, then!”

"It heartened her to see her friend happy and fat."

"Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world."

-_- :O

“The Declaration [United States Declaration of Independence] is like a map. You trust that it’s right, but you only know by going out and testing it yourself.”

"People always got things wrong, on purpose as much as by accident."

"She wondered why there were only two kinds of weather: hardship in the morning, and tribulation at night."