“The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.”
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“We who have come back, by the aid of many lucky chances or miracles—whatever one may choose to call them—we know: the best of us did not return.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
“The world doesn’t love you. If the police get you, the police don’t love you. When I beat you, I’m trying to save you. When they beat you, they’re trying to kill you.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Expertise is not a parlor trick played with factoids.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters
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