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Matthew Desmond
“it is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.”
Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Rebecca D. Costa
“The principles governing the speed at which the human organism can biologically adapt offer us the single greatest insight into why civilizations succeed and fail as well as the most reliable preview of our own destiny.”
Rebecca Costa, The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction

“Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.”
S. Vagus, Kasmah Forma

Daniel C. Dennett
“Our fundamental tactic of self-protection, self-control, and self-definition is not spinning webs or building dams, but telling stories, and more particularly connecting and controlling the story we tell others - and ourselves - about who we are.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained

Fareed Zakaria
“Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon, described the new interpretation of the Second Amendment in an interview after his tenure as 'one of the greatest pieces of fraud-I repeat the word FRAUD-on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
Fareed Zakaria

121757 The Life of Science — 48 members — last activity Oct 16, 2015 03:21PM
Do you have an "appetite for wonder" at the workings of the universe? Do you have ideas and memories worth sharing about science and society? If you d ...more
65747 Social Science — 35 members — last activity Sep 10, 2016 07:11PM
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
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