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“I don’t need to have the most, be the best, or reach the top. It is okay to pursue a life marked by obscurity and simplicity. It doesn’t matter what I own or how I’m perceived.”
― Jen Hatmaker, 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

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“Maybe none of this is about control...maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it.”
― Margaret Atwood

tags: gender-equality

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“observed the historian Nell Irvin Painter, “Americans cling to race as the unschooled cling to superstition.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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“Cynicism is, first of all, a style of presenting oneself, and more than anything, cynics take pride in not being fooled and not being foolish. But in the forms in which I encounter it, cynicism is frequently both of those things.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises

tags: cynicism, fear, hope

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“What challenged me and also confounded me was their (the Nobel prize attendees) apparent kindness...Their smiles were lovely, and most certainly charitable. Their benevolent might fooled me. I was a young fool, and still might be a fool, yet now I understand charity.”
― John Calvin Batchelor, The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

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