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The capability of individuals is not proving to be our primary difficulty, whether in medicine or elsewhere. Far from it. Training in most fields is longer and more intense than ever. People spend years of sixty-, seventy-, eighty-hour
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Maybe we should be asking if 60-80 hour weeks are the best way to learn, practice, and retain knowledge and if those conditions are optimal for thinking and making decisions?
“I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.”
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
― The Invention of Hugo Cabret
“Perhaps Louisa didn't need to detail what Marmee is so angry about nearly every day of her life. To be a woman is to know anger. To be underestimated, treated as inferior, have one's concerns classified as minor, to do all the work and receive none of the glory--how could one not feel angry? And yet in order to be a good woman who stands a chance at being loved and accepted, back then and still very much so now, one has to learn, as Marmee advises Jo, not to show it, even better not to feel it. Anger in a woman runs the risk of being pathologized, penalized, criminalized. A woman is supposed to bear the violence of patriarchy--both the bloody and the bloodless forms--with unflappable cheeriness (p.66)”
― March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
― March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women
“(“ ‘Sacrifice,’ ” Sylvie said, “is a word that makes people feel noble about slaughter.”) But,”
― A God in Ruins
― A God in Ruins
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