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The Odyssey
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Chanukah is really not that big a deal, religiously speaking. If it didn’t happen to fall around the same time as the good old alleged virgin birth, Ross from Friends probably wouldn’t even know about it! Will our hosts be throwing a Sukkot ...more
Becky Rice
This was maybe my favorite part. Everyone makes such a big deal out of Hanukkah when it’s really just a minor holiday when compared to other holy days.
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Hala Alyan
“When Salma peers into her daughter’s coffee cup, she knows instantly she must lie.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
“To yell “black-on-black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding.”
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Homer
“The limitless wrath of Achilles can end only once he recognizes that no absolute, permanent victory is ever possible. Everyone must bear unbearable losses, for which no compensation could ever be enough. In the end, we all lose. Our best hope is to accept partial, temporary limits on conflict, accepting human companionship and community as our only, always inadequate compensation, for the pervasive experience of loss.”
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“There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you.”
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“I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
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