What is strangest about these expectations and social rules is that for all their power today, at most times and in most places in human history, practically no one followed any of them.
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
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“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as what you do read.”
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“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”
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Prentice’s 2025 Year in Books
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