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The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing

by Anthony Bourdain

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Jan 26, 2026 08:46PM

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

by Stephen Graham Jones (Goodreads Author)

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May 25, 2025 09:42AM

“The pursuit of excellence with unrestrained passion can lead to the accomplishment of wonders with unsurpassed joy.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: believing-in-yourself, best-practices, enthusiasm, excellence, happy-new-year, inspiration, meeting-challenges, personal-motivation, positive-motivation, setting-goals

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“We are not born to accommodate tyranny over our hearts, minds, bodies, or souls. We are here to confirm an abundance of love-inspired possibilities greater than such restrictions.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

tags: agape-love, citizenship, democracy, diversity, generation-z, millennials, multiculturalism, political-elections, spiritual-philosophy, voting-rights

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“It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

tags: african-american-men, darren-hunt, demographics-of-united-states, eric-garner, human-rights-day, humanity, kajieme-powell, killing-of-black-men-in-america, mass-incarceration, michael-brown, post-racial-america, prison-reform, race-and-racism-in-america, race-relations, racial-profiling, tamir-rice, trayvon-martin, troy-anthony-davis

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“It had been more than a year since the Joker’s conquest of America and we were all still in shock and going through the stages of grief but now we needed to come together and set love and beauty and solidarity and friendship against the monstrous forces that faced us. Humanity was the only answer to the cartoon. I had no plan except love. I hoped another plan might emerge in time but for now there was only holding each other tightly and passing strength to each other, body to body, mouth to mouth, spirit to spirit, me to you.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Golden House

tags: donald-trump-as-the-joker, election-year-2016, election-year-2018, election-year-2020, human-unity, literature-of-reistance, love, political-satire, quotes-for-new-year-2018

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