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To Kill a Mockingbird

Kids are astute and pick up more than we’ll ever know.  And we’ll never know exactly when they are watching and what they will absorb.     

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us.  Your father’s one of them.”

 “… but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

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1984

“Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past.”

Look long and hard at the reality you believe.  If you dogmatically subscribe to the beliefs of one party or one person, then you may be part of the problem.  Think for yourself.   

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Slaughterhouse Five

“Billy, with all his memories of the future, knew that the city would be smashed to smithereens and then burned – in about 30 more days.  He knew, too, that most of the people watching him would soon be dead.”

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