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This is madness. Separate dorms for separate races? Keeping homeless people on the street? Keeping blind people blind, operating on children’s genitalia more wantonly than any other nation now does, cheating women athletes out of winning in
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“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn’t. It’s the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn’t require a future.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“When you are trying to survive, the superficial things don’t matter anymore. When you are hanging at the end of your rope, does it really matter what color the hand is that reaches up to help you?”
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
― The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
“I have never suffered greatly ... If you can reach fifty without a catastrophe, you've won. You've got away with it.”
― The Transit of Venus
― The Transit of Venus
“In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes”
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
― Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs
“The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.”
― The Overstory
― The Overstory
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