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#era

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There's nothing like a shovel full of dirt to encourage literacy. ↗


— Margaret Atwood


#literacy #censorship

Sometimes when persons say definitely it sounds actually less true. ↗


— Emma Donoghue


#definitely #emphasis #exaggeration #truth #uncertainty

In the 1950s kids lost their innocence. They were liberated from their parents by well-paying jobs, cars, and lyrics in music that gave rise to a new term ---the generation gap. In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was a decade of protest---church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. Self-image, Self-esteem, Self-assertion....It made for a lonely world. Kids learned everything there was to know about sex and forgot everything there was to know about love, and no one had the nerve to tell them there was a difference. In the 1980s, kids lost their hope. Stripped of innocence, authority and love and plagued by the horror of a nuclear nightmare, large and growing numbers of this generation stopped believing in the future. In the 1990s kids lost their power to reason. Less and less were they taught the very basics of language, truth, and logic and they grew up with the irrationality of a postmodern world. In the new millennium, kids woke up and found out that somewhere in the midst of all this change, they had lost their imagination. Violence and perversion entertained them till none could talk of killing innocents since none was innocent anymore. ↗


— Ravi Zacharias


#innocence-lost #societal-degredation #change

Don’t you think we’re going to go to hell for this?” asked Lissa. He reached out and touched her face, trailing his fingers along her cheek and neck and down to the top of her silky shirt. She breathed heavily at that touch, at the way it could be so gentle and small, yet evoke such a strong passion within her. “For this?” He played with the shirt’s edge, letting his finger just barely brush inside of it. “No,” she laughed. “For this.” She gestured around the attic. “This is a church. We shouldn’t be doing this kind of, um, thing up here.” “Not true,” he argued. Gently, he pushed her onto her back and leaned over her. “The church is downstairs. This is just storage. God won’t mind. ↗


— Richelle Mead


#lissa-dragomir #church

If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help. ↗


— Jonah Goldberg


#fascism #government #liberalism #political #politics

Your misery and hate will kill us all Black Parade ↗


— My Chemical Romance


#emo #gerard-way #misery #misery

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? ↗


— Italo Calvino


#experience

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. ↗


— Thomas Carlyle


#literacy #reading #mankind

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first. ↗


— Rick Riordan


#lost-hero #piper #thalia #heroes

Excuses are merely nails used to build a house of failure. ↗


— Habeeb Akande


#determination #excuses #failure #perserverance #success






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