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Book cover for Hannah Coulter
You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
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C.L.R. James
“The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.”
C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Viet Thanh Nguyen
“We don’t succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do.”
Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Karl Marx
“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

Joseph J. Ellis
“The Constitution was intended less to resolve arguments than to make argument itself the solution. For judicial devotees of "originalism" or "original intent," this should be a disarming insight, since it made the Constitution the foundation for an ever-shifting political dialogue that, like history itself, was an argument without end. Madison's "original intention" was to make all "original intentions" infinitely negotiable in the future.”
Joseph J. Ellis

Cormac McCarthy
“Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not”
Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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