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almost obsessive zeal to understand why they do what they do. Why would someone lack empathy or gaslight or manipulate or lie so skillfully or rage so suddenly?
“Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called violence against women and girls the “most shameful human rights violation”3 and the World Health Organization called it a “global health problem of epidemic proportions.”
― No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
― No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
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“Politicians insist that our judgment about our bodies and futures cannot be trusted, so our own reproductive systems must be controlled by lawmakers we don’t know in places we’ve never been.”
― Untamed
― Untamed
“And it’s the act of our observing the cat that kills it—or lets it live. And then it gets mind-fuckingly weird. Because those kinds of observations happen all the time. So if the world really splits whenever something is observed, that means there’s an unimaginably massive, infinite number of universes—a multiverse—where everything that can happen will happen.”
― Dark Matter
― Dark Matter
“Real estate (then, now, and probably forevermore) was a prime source of speculative frenzy. Taylor wrote that “a friend of mine, who wished to find a place for a law practice, was shown a cellar in the earth about twelve feet square and six deep, which he could have for $250 a month.”
― A Short History of San Francisco
― A Short History of San Francisco
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