- Author:: [[Neil Stephenson]]
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- Author:: [[Neal Stephenson]]
- Full Title:: The Diamond Age
- Category:: [[books]]
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- ### Highlights first synced by [[Readwise]] [[September 21st, 2020]]
    - Moral reforms and deteriorations are moved by large forces, and they are mostly caused by reactions from the habits of a preceding period. Backwards and forwards swings the great pendulum, and its alternations are not determined by a few distinguished folk clinging to the end of it. —Sir Charles Petrie, THE VICTORIANS ([Location 33](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B000FBJCKI&location=33))