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“Meet me in Cognito, baby. In Cognito, we'll have nothing to hide.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
“Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
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“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
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“But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative.”
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“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.”
― With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
― With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
Jess’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jess’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
616 books
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143 friends
1,083 books
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94 friends
3,616 books
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670 friends
2,094 books
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5,406 friends
4,959 books
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210 friends
624 books
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257 friends
303 books
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130 friends
1,082 books
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112 friends
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