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“You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“No matter where we live, the result is the same: as people identify with increasingly narrow tribes, they begin to view those with different views as alien, not worth respecting or even treating as human. The Beyond Conflict Institute’s 2020 report, America’s Divided Mind, didn’t mince any words: “Increasingly, Americans who identify themselves as either Democrats or Republicans view one another less as fellow citizens and more as enemies who represent a profound threat to their identities.”
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
― Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
“Never name the well from which you will not drink.”
― The Mists of Avalon
― The Mists of Avalon
“Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung. We make rules that frustrate achievement. We prematurely write off people as failures. We are too much in awe of those who succeed and far too dismissive of those who fail. And, most of all, we become much too passive. We overlook just how large a role we all play—and by “we” I mean society—in determining who makes it and who doesn’t. If we chose to, we could acknowledge that cutoff dates matter.”
― Outliers: The Story of Success
― Outliers: The Story of Success
“would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama. Absurd.”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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