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“Discovery is not seeing what there is (that is impossible at any level), but rather allowing oneself to converge towards a continually freshly-created reality.”
― From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics
― From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics
“History is made by historians. No event becomes a historic event unless historians turn it into one.”
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“Many people believe that gender identity...is rooted in biology...Many other people understand that gender is more like language than like biology; that is, while they understand us humans to have a biological capacity to use language, they point out we are not born with a hard-wired language "preinstalled" in our brains. Likewise, while we have a biological capacity to identify with and learn to "speak" from a particular location in a cultural gender system, we don't come into the world with a predetermined gender identity.”
― Transgender History
― Transgender History
“Ain't you interested in bettering yourself?"
"'Bettering yourself.' Now there's a phrase for you. You think your brother is a better man now than he was when he was hoeing corn?"
"He's happier."
"That ain't the same thing. He's happy at everybody's else's expense. Progress is always at somebody's expense. Hit means putting everything in order till they's no room to breathe. Progress means cleaning everything up. But I like things dirty.”
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"'Bettering yourself.' Now there's a phrase for you. You think your brother is a better man now than he was when he was hoeing corn?"
"He's happier."
"That ain't the same thing. He's happy at everybody's else's expense. Progress is always at somebody's expense. Hit means putting everything in order till they's no room to breathe. Progress means cleaning everything up. But I like things dirty.”
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“He'll mind. I can see that he's very possessive of you--and very protective." He paused, then said, "Let him mind, Shori. Talk to him. Help him. Reassure him. Stop Violence. But let him feel what he feels and settle his feelings his own way."
"All right."
"...Let them see that you trust them and let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions. Do that and they will willingly commit their lives to you. Bully them, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, and after a while, you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, and stifling their resentment.”
― Fledgling
"All right."
"...Let them see that you trust them and let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions. Do that and they will willingly commit their lives to you. Bully them, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, and after a while, you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, and stifling their resentment.”
― Fledgling
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