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“The ‘no corpses, no attention’ rule may make sense for media news budgets based on body counts, but it’s bad development policy.”

i am only reading about investing because my dad got this book for me for christmas, but i suppose i will learn things

“Science’s permanently revolutionary conviction that the search for truth never ends seemed to [Sagan] the only approach with sufficient humility to be worthy of the universe that it revealed. The methodology of science...seemed to him the height of spiritual discipline.”

uhhh this is about to be my favorite book. i’m ready

i can’t read too much of this at once because it hits so very close to home

“The essence of New Localism is that cities have more power than they think and more problem solving capacity than they know...Build from strength to address needs rather than build from needs to address strengths.” p.116-117

“There was something newly powerful about this assembled family in this car. They were all growing up and into each other like trees striving together for the sun.”

“There was that heavy silence that sometimes happens when a hit man enters the room.”

“Cross-sector collaborations and creativity are necessary to rethink issues within our urban cities.”

This book is so healing.

"Let's be clear. The debate over healthcare in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics."

"Let's be clear. The debate over healthcare in this country is not a debate about medical treatment or the best way to prevent disease. It is a debate about economics and class politics."

if you're a little hazy on how and why institutional racism is a thing, Ian Haney López lays it out excellently. very excited for the rest of this book