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An accident of brain development stacked the deck against children: the mother had three or four years to fuck with your head before your hippocampus began recording lasting memories.
“To the migrants from outside who have to cross borders and leave their countries behind at the price of immense tragedies, we must from now on add the migrants from inside who, while remaining in place, are experiencing the drama of seeing themselves left behind by their own countries.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“Facts remain robust only when they are supported by a common culture, by institutions that can be trusted, by a more or less decent public life, by more or less reliable media.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“But then is no one at home any longer?” No, as a matter of fact. Neither state sovereignty nor inviolable borders can take the place of politics any longer.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“The new universality consists in feeling that the ground is in the process of giving way.”
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
― Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime
“though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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