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“Life is about having joy. It’s about increasing our ability to give and receive love and it’s about gaining all the knowledge we can. It’s also about serving others, feeling grateful for all we have, and learning to create the life we want.”
― Bradley Nelson, The Emotion Code: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love and Happiness

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“The things white men failed to notice would fill the world they had ruined ten thousand times over.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

tags: literary-fiction, men

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“In his analysis of the sublime effect, Edmund Burke termed 'horror' the state of mind of a person whose participation in speech is threatened. The power which exceeds the capacity of interlocution resembles night.”
― Jean-François Lyotard

tags: cancel-culture, dissent, free-speech, horror, human-rights, silencing, sublime

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“The point of history, the very essence of it as a field of study, is to find correspondences. You look at the past so that you can understand it, and through it you come to a better understanding of your own time.”
― M.R. Carey, The Boy on the Bridge

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“I'm saying that figuring out what's important in life and how to go about getting it is very difficult. Sometimes you get confused and you get tempted to just let other people make the rules. And some people are really happy to make the rules for other people. Adam Lyons, the man who runs the epiphany machine, is one of those people.”
― David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine

tags: conformity, literary-fiction

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