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“For someone fortunate enough to be born wearing the boot, the capacity for mercy may well extend only to how hard one chooses to step on the neck. That anyone should take the shoe off entirely, walk from the site of the trampling, is unthinkable.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“It is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful.”
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

“The world, full of people who factor not one iota in the calculus of those morning meetings, looks upon this and asks, simply: Beyond self-interest, what do you believe in? And every morning the answer, dressed up in anesthetic euphemism and dependent on our collective capacity for resignation to the lesser of two evils, is: Nothing.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“The realities of what science had taken from the cosmos and could not give back continued to project themselves toward Keiji Nakazawa.”
― Charles Pellegrino