Trish Mercer Quotes

#1. You can't manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.

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#2. There's discipline, Mahrree knew, and then there's abuse. The first works, while the second never does. And some people, like Lemuel Thorne, had no idea there was even a difference.

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#3. Education can so easily unseat one's confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.

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#4. But for some reason the Department believed all students should learn the exact same way and at the exact same time, demonstrating that no one in Instruction knew the first thing about children.

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#5. After five or six weeks of listening to his sermons on healing and renewing, Edgers felt healed and renewed - especially after the caravan of supplies arrived from Idumea - and stopped attending. When the crisis was gone, so was the need to feel the Creator.

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#6. - fear comes only when you don't have faith in the outcome. And boredom comes only when you believe there's nothing new worth learning. I simply can't understand how any of that will occur today.

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#7. Anyone who thought women were softer, or calmer, or gentler had obviously never visited Edge: home of vindictive females.

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#8. You like to claim that you're in charge of the world, but it's as if the world hasn't noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.

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#9. This is what politics is about, right? We help the people discover the threat to their security, then we provide them with a solution.

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#10. That must be what power does to a man: erases what he knows and makes him remember only what services him at the moment.

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#11. No one's ever successfully insulted him, because he refuses to be insulted. People do their best, but Yung won't even acknowledge the attempt of an affront.

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#12. Each person was in the power of the Creator, or could be turned over to be battered by the Refuser. Every soul was equal in the Creator's eyes.
That was comforting and troubling at the same time.

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#13. Group pressure is also a fascinating process to watch. Given enough arguments, time, and stress, even the most resolute and determined man can be made fearful enough to completely reverse his ideals to conform with everyone else.

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