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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

by Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author)

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"Author confers the accolade of spacial measurements on no one - gives credit of time measurement to the latter middle age monks, western civilization, and Europe. Disgusting how other civilizations contributions are just casually cancelled or hidden." — Nov 23, 2022 08:12PM

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The Story of Human Language

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Atlas of the Qur'ân: An Authentic Collection of the Qur'anic Information with Maps, Tables and Pictures

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“I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared”
― Leila Aboulela

tags: despair, first-steps, goodness, hope, inadequacy, revertion, straight-path

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“Racism should never have happened and so you don't get a cookie for reducing it.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“Racial prejudice rotted one's faculties.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

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“If you’re telling a non-black person about something racist that happened to you, make sure you are not bitter. Don’t complain. Be forgiving. If possible, make it funny. Most of all, do not be angry. Black people are not supposed to be angry about racism. Otherwise you get no sympathy. This applies only for white liberals, by the way. Don’t even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Because the conservative will tell you that YOU are the real racist and your mouth will hang open in confusion.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

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“I am touched by her life, how it moves forward, pulses and springs. There is no fragmentation, nothing stunted or wedged. I circle back, I regress, the past doesn't let go. It might as well be a malfunction, a scene repeating itself, a scratched vinl record, a stutter.”
― Leila Aboulela, Minaret

tags: dispair, emo, envy, jealousy, sadness, stinted, stuck, unmoving, upset

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