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But these voices were quickly marginalized within the broader discourse around the hundred-dollar laptop.
Here’s an egregious example of shutting down the people who are supposed to be served by these savior devices. The people raise concerns, and what do they get? Derision.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.”
― Giovanni’s Room
― Giovanni’s Room
“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you know it. I want to understand the meaning of your experience, to walk in your shoes, to feel things as you feel them, to explain things as you explain them. Will you become my teacher and help me understand?”
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Solen’s 2024 Year in Books
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