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The Memory Police

by Yōko Ogawa

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar

by Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)

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“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”
― John Muir

tags: life-and-living, materialism, mountains, nature, wildness-is-a-necessity

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“Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the welder, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

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“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
― Harry S. Truman

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“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.”
― Edward Bernays

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“There’s an America that exists inside the borders of the United States, which is a very different entity from the America that projects its force outside the United States”
― Suzy Hansen, Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

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