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“If our children are unable to voice what they mean, no one will know how they feel. If they canâ€™t imagine a different world, they are stumbling through a darkness made all the more sinister by its lack of reference points. For a young person growing up in Americaâ€™s alienated neighborhoods, there can be no greater empowerment than to dare to speak from the heart â€” and then to discover that one is not alone in ones feelings.”
“I claim that relativity and the rest of modern physics is not complicated. It can be explained very simply. It is only unusual or, put another way, it is contrary to common sense.”
“When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.”
“The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.”
“Truth must be found in reality, not systems.”
“Before the discovery of these [underwater] vents, all life on Earth, the key to life on Earth, was believed to be the sun and photosynthesis. But down there, there is no sun, there is no photosynthesis; it's chemosynthetic environment down there driving it, and it's all so ephemeral.”
“the luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many ...”

Source : Flora Thompson, H. J. Massingham (2009). “Lark Rise to Candleford”, p.431, David R. Godine Publisher
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