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The Message

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society

by Binyamin Appelbaum

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Zach’s Quotes

“People will selectively use “tradition” to justify anything.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

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“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice," Amos liked to say. "Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
― Michael Lewis

tags: amos-tversky, optimism, pessimism

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“We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

tags: time

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“Every time a couple moves they begin, if their attention is still drawn to one another, to see each other differently, for personalities are not a single immutable color, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

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“when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

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