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“the healing ADD calls for is not a process of recovery from some illness. It is a process of becoming whole—which, it so happens, is the original sense of the word healing.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

“Never retract, never explain, get things done and let them howl.”
― Pierre Berton, The Promised Land: Settling the West 1896-1914

“she did not stop; she felt an old Kikian urge – once upon a time regularly exercised – to shock and, at the same time, to tell the truth. It was the identical feeling she felt (but rarely acted upon) in churches and upscale stores and courtrooms. Places she sensed the truth was rarely told.”
― Zadie Smith, On Beauty

“I must take a moment and give an especially hearty cheer to anyone who champions structured data, richer data, data that gives us more handles to grab on to the things we are describing and thus enables us to serve them up in different ways within different contexts for our different constituent groups. However sophisticated the relevancy algorithms and myriad features of any discovery product might be, at the most basic level, these systems rely on the data we feed them.”
― Joseph Janes, Library 2020: Today's Leading Visionaries Describe Tomorrow's Library