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“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
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“Usually Google has had a way of coming up with the creepier statements, but Facebook has pulled ahead: A recent revision in its statement of purpose includes directives like assuring that “every single person has a sense of purpose and community.”5 A single company is going to see to it that every single person has a purpose, because it presumes that was lacking before. If that is not a new religion, I don’t know what is.”
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
― Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
“We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.”
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“Just come back, I was thinking. You've been gone long enough. Just come back. I will stop traveling; I will wash your clothes.”
― M Train
― M Train
“I took my hands from my pockets and ran them along the bricks' gnarled and pitted surface. They seemed light and ready to crumble. I felt the impulse to kiss them, so as to experience more closely a texture that reminded me of blocks of pumice or halva from a Lebanese delicatessen.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
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