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Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
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“Do not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go to your head and failure to your heart.”
― The Light in the Heart
― The Light in the Heart
“Earlier in the twentieth century some critics called fascism 鈥渃apitalism with the gloves off,鈥 meaning that fascism was pure capitalism without democratic rights and organizations.”
― Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
― Profit Over People: Neoliberalism and Global Order
“having freed ourselves from the constraints of evolution, humans nevertheless remain dependent on the earth鈥檚 biological and geochemical systems. By disrupting these systems鈥攃utting down tropical rainforests, altering the composition of the atmosphere, acidifying the oceans鈥攚e鈥檙e putting our own survival in danger.”
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
― The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
“It was, in fact, one of those places that exist merely so that people can have come from them. The universe is littered with them: hidden villages, windswept little towns under wide skies, isolated cabins on chilly mountains, whose only mark on history is to be the incredibly ordinary place where something extraordinary started to happen. Often there is no more than a little plaque to reveal that, against all gynecological probability, someone very famous was born halfway up a wall.”
― Equal Rites
― Equal Rites
Michael鈥檚 2024 Year in Books
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