“It was like people in the West thought Muslims were a different species that had no ability to reason and act rationally.”
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“We are thus led to ask what the writer looks for and how he trains himself to look for it. The answer is: he makes himself habitually aware of words, positively self conscience of them about them, careful to follow what they might say and not to jump to what they might mean.”
― Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
― Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
“Hate speech laws aren't passed to limit hate; they are passed to enforce social norms.”
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“Stress never comes directly from your circumstances. It comes from your thoughts about your circumstances.”
― Breaking the Stress Cycle: 7 Steps to Greater Resilience, Happiness, and Peace of Mind
― Breaking the Stress Cycle: 7 Steps to Greater Resilience, Happiness, and Peace of Mind
“To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.”
― The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern
― The Energies of Art: Studies of Authors, Classic and Modern
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