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Donald today is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information.
“Nothing made me forget the world like reading did. Nothing made me think about the world like reading did. Nothing else filled me up. Nothing else emptied me out. Sentences and paragraphs would drift through my head like clouds.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“I have thought of my own life as a footnote to the things that really matter. Never tragic, often hilarious. Or perhaps this is the lie I tell myself. Maybe I pitched my tent where the wind blows strongest hoping it would blow my heart clean out of my body.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“History isn’t the study of the past; it is the study of change. History teaches us what remains the same, what changes, and how things change.”
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
― Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
“She was my shelter and my storm.”
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
― Mother Mary Comes to Me
“The National Party (NP) tried to make its nakedly racist system seem palatable with the phrase 'separate development' - perhaps Apartheid's greatest lie. The truth was that in Verwoerd's magic kingdom, Snow White carried a sjambok and beat the shit out of anyone that failed the pencil test.”
― BULLSH!T: 50 Fibs That Made South Africa
― BULLSH!T: 50 Fibs That Made South Africa
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