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The Myth of Left and Right: How the Political Spectrum Misleads and Harms America

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Between the World and Me (One World Essentials) by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.

“Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: mockingbird, sin, wisdom

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“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”
― Viktor E. Frankl

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“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

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“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

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“They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: integrity

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