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Book cover for Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures

Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There – from the presenter of the 2025 BBC ‘Moral Revolution’ Reith lectures by Rutger Bregman

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Up to a per capita GDP of roughly $5,000 a year, life expectancy increases more or less automatically.18 But once there’s enough food on the table, a roof that doesn’t leak, and clean running water to drink, economic growth is no longer a ...more

Apan’s Quotes

“One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“Her grief grieved her. His devastated her.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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“Is there anything more dangerous than dissatisfied and irresponsible gods who don’t know what they want?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: dreaming, happyiness

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“He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: love

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