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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
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The immediate point of the fish story is merely that the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
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“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
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“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
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