Taylor

“Progress is so unusual and so rare, and we're all out hunting, trying to find El Dorado," Patrick said. "Almost everyone's going to return empty-handed. Sober, responsible adults aren't going to quit their jobs and lives to build companies that, in the end, may not even be worth it. It requires, in a visceral way, a sort of self-sacrificing.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“But standing back to back with Sunita, it was confirmed. He was taller. As a thief, Sunil Sharma has finally started to grow.”
― Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

“quoting a socialist writer in the San Francisco "Voice of Labor": It is a terrible thing to think that the poor workers of this country should be sent to kill and wound the poor workers of Spain merely because a few leaders may incite them to do so.”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“Man's decay has always begun as soon as he has it all, and is free of friction, pain, and the deprivation that temper his behavior”
― Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic