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“In our era, it is not enough to be tolerant. You tolerate mosquitoes in the summer, a rattle in an engine, the gray slush that collects at the crosswalk in winter. You tolerate what you would rather not have to deal with and wish would go away. It is no honor to be tolerated. Every spiritual tradition says love your neighbor as yourself, not tolerate them.”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“grief is love made homeless,”
― The Chestnut Man
― The Chestnut Man
“So the real question would be,' he said finally, 'if people were given the choice between democracy and whiteness, how many would choose whiteness?'
- Taylor Branch, as quoted by Isabel Wilkerson in Caste”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
- Taylor Branch, as quoted by Isabel Wilkerson in Caste”
― Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
“You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Loki's green eyes flashed with anger and with admiration, for he loved a good trick as much as he hated being fooled.”
― Norse Mythology
― Norse Mythology
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