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Who Rules the World?
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Katabasis
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The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn’t the real point. But they are more or ...more
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Tara Westover
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
Tara Westover, Educated

Tara Westover
“The word and the way Shawn had said it hadn’t changed; only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myself to be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand.”
Tara Westover, Educated
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James K.A. Smith
“How to die is a question of how to life, but how to live is a matter of knowing how to love: how to find a love that isn't haunted by fear, a love that is stronger than death--figuring out how to love rightly and love lightly with all the mortal beauties of creation without despising or resenting their mortality either. To love and live in a way that faces up to our death, and the mortality that hangs over our finitude....”
James K.A. Smith

Douglas Adams
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer”
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Zadie Smith
“Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do “something,” that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I’m not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.”
Zadie Smith, Intimations

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