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Leviathan (The Norton Library)

by Thomas Hobbes

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Sep 11, 2024 07:12AM

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Shadow Slave: Book37

by Guiltythree

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The Chevron Doctrine: Its Rise and Fall, and the Future of the Administrative State

by Thomas W. Merrill

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“There is some comfort for me in knowing that life will go on even when we don’t. But I would argue that when our light goes out, it will be Earth’s greatest tragedy, because while I know humans are prone to grandiosity, I also think we are by far the most interesting thing that ever happened on Earth.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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“For those who remain devout, God endowed man with what, by any standard, must be considered a universally bad disposition, fortunately put to good use in subduing women.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women

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“It’s no coincidence that the scientific revolution in Britain coincided with the rise of British participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the growing wealth being extracted from colonies and enslaved labor.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

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“In short, teaching writing is not only inseparable from teaching content, it can also be tantamount to teaching students how to think critically.”
― Natalie Wexler, The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

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“psychological, and moral implications it has had both for its contractors and its victims. By treating the present as a somehow neutral baseline, with its given configuration of wealth, property, social standing, and psychological willingness to sacrifice, the idealized social contract renders permanent the legacy of the Racial Contract.”
― Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract

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