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Sebastian Junger
“Joseph Cassano of AIG Financial Products—known as “Mr. Credit-Default Swap”—led a unit that required a $99 billion bailout while simultaneously distributing $1.5 billion in year-end bonuses to his employees—including $34 million to himself. Robert Rubin of Citibank received a $10 million bonus in 2008 while serving on the board of directors of a company that required $63 billion in federal funds to keep from failing. Lower down the pay scale, more than 5,000 Wall Street traders received bonuses of $1 million or more despite working for nine of the financial firms that received the most bailout money from the US goverment. Neither”
Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Alejandro Jodorowsky
“This is true freedom: to be capable of leaving ourselves, crossing the boundaries of our little world to open up the universe.”
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Psicomagia

Sebastian Junger
“An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men".”
Sebastian Junger, Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Amanda Ripley
“This strange new test called PISA, which stood for the Program for International Student Assessment. Instead of a typical test question, which might ask which combination of coins you needed to buy something, PISA asked you to design your own coins, right there in the test booklet.”
Amanda Ripley, The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way

Octavia E. Butler
“Your teachers
Are all around you.
All that you perceive,
All that you experience,
All that is given to you
or taken from you,
All that you love or hate,
need or fear
Will teach you--
If you will learn.
God is your first
and your last teacher.
God is your harshest teacher:
subtle,
demanding.
Learn or die.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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