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“Experience, not information, is the key to emotional development.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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“Angela Davis would say we're all selling our bodies. That the only difference between a coal miner and a prostitute is our retrograde puritan values about sex. And mysogyny.”
― kaveh akbar, Martyr!

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“Cyrus prided himself in descending from people comfortable sitting in uncertainty. He himself knew little about anything and tried to remember that. He read once about a Sufi prayer that went “Lord, increase my bewilderment.” That was the prayer in its entirety.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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“The anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once observed that, “for the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe, or linguistic group, sometimes even at the edge of a village.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

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