You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ray Bradbury
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The world may seem like it’s full of chaos at times. But, if we look closer, we can see how the world has become more and more orderly. That’s why I believe that people who are trying to destroy the world aren't actually destroying it. Instead, they are working to make sure that reading books is no longer part of the world’s culture.

If you want to destroy something, you have to do two things: First, you have to act. Second, you have to do something that causes people to act. The people who are trying to destroy the world today don’t actually want to act.

Instead, they just want us not to act.

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