The conclusion from these analyses was startling: people from Western society, “including young children, are among the least representative populations one could find for generalizing about humans,” the team wrote in 2010. They even came
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“This was love: a string of coincidences that gathered significance and became miracles.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
― The Grapes of Wrath
― The Grapes of Wrath
“When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we've developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship. And the one condition, it turns out, is money. If you have a lot of it, the legal road you get to travel is well lit and beautifully maintained. If you don't, it's a dark alley and most Americans would be shocked to find out what's at the end of it.”
― The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
― The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
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