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Lola in the Mirror

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Book cover for On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing In 2025

On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing In 2025 by Timothy Snyder

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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.

“I refuse to join with them in performing the miracle—I will not say trick—of liberating the oppressed with the gold of the tyrant, and raising the poor with the cash of the rich.”
― B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste: The Annotated Critical Edition

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“But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?”
― Arundhati Roy, Broken Republic: Three Essays

tags: action, fear, future, present

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“Reading Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar bridges the gap between what most Indians are schooled to believe in and the reality we experience every day of our lives.”
― Arundhati Roy, Annihilation of Caste

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“You don’t have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

tags: animals, ethics, morality, philosophy, veganism

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“We write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves.”
― Andrea Barrett

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