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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

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“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”
― Helen Keller

tags: collaboration, life, teamwork

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“The choices we make about the lives we live determine the kinds of legacies we leave.”
― Tavis Smiley, The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

tags: choice, legacy, life, morality

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“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

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“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

tags: bees, impermanence, insight, mujō, philosophy, stillness, time, 無常

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“In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually deploys epiphany as a metaphor. It is usually only in dramatic representations, religious iconography, and the 'magical thinking' of children that insight is compressed to a sudden blinding flash.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

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