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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

by Robert D. Putnam

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“It feels so American to discount dreams because they’re not built of objects, of things you can hold and catalogue and then put in a safe. Dreams give us voices, visions, ideas, mortal terrors, and departed beloveds. Nothing counts more to an individual, or less to an empire.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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“Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting.”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America

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“The only people who speak in certainties are zealots and tyrants.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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“there was a word for this: sonder. “The realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.” Incredible, how naming something took nothing away from its stagger. Language could be totally impotent like that.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

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“Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life. Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game. Just consider it. Consider that there is not an error, and everything that’s come down on your plate is the way it is and here we are.”
― Ram Dass

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