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“When you judge other people without wanting to know the true story behind their actions, is usually when there is something inside of you that is so broken that if you found out what you believed about them was a lie, you wouldn’t want to accept it or make amends.”
― Shannon L. Alder

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“Suffering took hold of me like a magic spell abolishing all differences between friends and strangers.”
― Diane Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Wife

tags: changes, differences, holocaust, life, live, magic, nazis, suffer, truth

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“Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.”
― Aniruddha Sastikar

tags: assuming, assumption, bane, belief, disease, fancy, glued, guess, skin, soul, stuck

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“Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”
― Rebecca Solnit

tags: arrogance, ignorance, mansplain, mansplaining, men, misogyny, patriarchy, self-doubt, self-doubts, sexual-harrassment, silence, women, women-s-rights

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“Culture is not trivial. It is not a decoration or artifice, the songs we sing or even the prayers we chant. It is a blanket of comfort that gives meaning to lives. It is a body of knowledge that allows the individual to make sense out of the infinite sensations of consciousness, to find meaning and order in a universe that ultimately has neither. Culture is a body of laws and traditions, a moral and ethical code that insulates a people from the barbaric heart that lies just beneath the surface of all human societies and indeed all human beings. Culture alone allows us to reach, as Abraham Lincoln said, for the better angels of our nature.”
― Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

tags: anthropology, culture

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