Answer: “Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.’”
This quote is the one that best exemplifies how trying to make everyone the same is a dangerous and foolish goal. This is the main theme of <em>Harrison Bergeron</em>, by Kurt Vonnegut. In this story, people are meant to be all the same due to a government mandate. In order to achieve this, people who are too beautiful, too intelligent or too athletic have to wear handicaps in order to be brought down to the level of the lowest common denominator.
First, I will ask her again if she understood what I said because there may be a language barrier between us. She may have misunderstood, which is why she held her hand out expecting money. If she says she understood what I was asking, I will ask her how much money she wants for the photo and base my final decision on that.
Leah was distracted while talking to someone on the bus about her phone. When she got off at the mall, she exclaimed, "Oh no! My purse!" She had realized that she had forgotten her purse on the seat!
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