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Another Roadside Attraction

by Tom Robbins

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“The evangelical church…supported the status quo. It supported slavery; it supported segregation; it preached against any attempt of the Black man to stand on his own two feet.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

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“Mantra meditation, incidentally, is the most powerful tool to quiet this field, which is vulnerable to the fluctuations of all that we perceive and process daily in our minds through our senses.”
― Kulreet Chaudhary, Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind

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“Ignorance allied with power is the most ferocious enemy of justice.”
― Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

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“This is what commuting is. Small pleasures coaxed from playing the routine like a game. Little tricks of the part-time countryman. It might be soul-destroying. I might be a bit pitiful. I don’t know.”
― Max Porter, Lanny

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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

tags: donald-trump, evil, lack-of-character, lies, opportunism, politics

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