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“A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?”

Book:Firestarter

Work

Firestarter

Cited for its suspenseful narrative and intriguing premise, this book delves into the life of a child who discovers he has the power to ignite flames. The story explores themes of fear, control, and the struggle for identity amidst a world that seeks to exploit his abilities. more

Author

Stephen King

Stephen King, born on September 21, 1947, is a renowned American author. His works primarily focus on horror, fantasy, and science fiction, and have won him a wide audience. King has received numerous literary awards in the United States, including the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the World Fantasy Award. more

“I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as evolutionary time is measured, a juvenile species, a child of a species. We are only tentatively set in place, error prone, at risk of fumbling, in real danger at the moment of leaving behind only a thin layer of of our fossils, radioactive at that.”

Children Stills Real Moments Earth Behinds Risk Danger Creatures Members Errors Species Leaving Scales Fragile Layers Fossils Juvenile

Book:Fragile Species

Source: Fragile Species

“The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.”

People May Mean Desire Numbers Type Needed Succeed Abuse Majority Active Accepted Abuse Of Power Precaution Tyranny Of The Majority

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”

Source: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…

“Hiccup: Thank You For Nothing You Stupid Reptile.”

Stupid Reptiles Hiccups

Author:Cressida Cowell

“Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death”

Degrees South Hopeless Twelve Freezing Dreamworks

Author:Cressida Cowell

“Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always allowed to it in theory; for while every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility.”

Thinking Knows Wells Facts Mankind Theory Weight Practicals Judgement Good Sense Precaution Fallibility

Book:On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Source: On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays

“Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.”