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Jonathan  Dunne
“Humanity must be cut to the ground and allowed to flourish once again”
Jonathan Dunne, Finding Jesus

Matthew Desmond
“Every condition exists,” Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, “simply because someone profits by its existence. This economic exploitation is crystallized in the slum.” Exploitation. Now, there’s a word that has been scrubbed out of the poverty debate.”
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Zaman Ali
“Whoever enforces equality itself brings inequality.”
Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

Fareed Zakaria
“Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon, described the new interpretation of the Second Amendment in an interview after his tenure as 'one of the greatest pieces of fraud-I repeat the word FRAUD-on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
Fareed Zakaria

“Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.”
S. Vagus, Kasmah Forma

121757 The Life of Science — 48 members — last activity Oct 16, 2015 03:21PM
Do you have an "appetite for wonder" at the workings of the universe? Do you have ideas and memories worth sharing about science and society? If you d ...more
65747 Social Science — 35 members — last activity Sep 10, 2016 07:11PM
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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