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“We become hardwired for conflict. And that wiring remains, even when there’s no more conflict to be had.”
― J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

“Tell them to walk in the shade. To listen with their eyes, to see with their skin, and to feel with their ears, because life speaks to us all and we just need to know and wait to listen to it, see it, feel it.”
― Sofía Segovia, The Murmur of Bees

“intihuatana, or ‘the place to which the sun is tied’.”
― Hiram Bingham, Lost City of the Incas

“History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow