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“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”
― Just Mercy
― Just Mercy
“It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“But then as now, tuberculosis does not travel primarily through paths forged by race, except insofar as human power structures force it to.”
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
― Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
“Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.”
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“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the flooding infection of people, the dead spots of the concrete all over the planet, the cancerous rot-outs in Europe, Japan and the United States, thick with replicating primates, the colonies enlarging and spreading and threatening to shock the biosphere with mass extinctions. Perhaps the biosphere does not 'like' the idea of five billion humans.”
― the Hot Zone
― the Hot Zone
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