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“A psychologist has noted the “garbage in/garbage out” circularity of “elegant experimental designs and statistical analyses applied to biologically meaningless racial categories.”20”
― Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
― Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
“every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power. Deciding to “not decide” about an e-mail or anything else is another one of those decisions, which drains your psychological fuel tank.”
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“In sum, restoring notions of race mixture to center stage recommits us, willy-nilly, to the discredited idea of racial purity, the basic premise of bio-racism. The”
― Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
― Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life
“When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh so very seriously. Your truly happy people, which is to say, your people who truly like themselves, they don't think about themselves very much. Your unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwellin' on himself and start payin' attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form o' self-indulgence.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I've never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
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