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A Velocity of Being: Letters to a Young Reader

by Maria Popova (Goodreads Author)

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Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Vishakha’s Quotes

“Always remember that love, much like our faith in God, is the kite we must fly, even on a windless day.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

tags: faith, faith-quotes, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, love, love-quotes, partners, partnerships, philosophy

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“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

tags: disingenuous, do-gooders, fake-people, grandstanding, hypocrisy, hypocrites, poseurs, posturing, virtue-signaling, virtue-signalling

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“Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.”
― Vikram Seth

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“Its refugee members were hobbled by their structural function in the American Dream, which was to be so unhappy as to make other Americans grateful for their happiness.”
― Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

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