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The Old Gringo

by Carlos Fuentes

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Jul 15, 2024 06:39PM

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The Homestead Strike of 1892 (Regional)

by Arthur Burgoyne

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Apr 16, 2021 10:41AM

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Neighbor

by Will Lupens

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Apr 15, 2021 08:37AM

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“To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

tags: emotions, feelings

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“A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait

tags: revolution, social-movements

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“while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

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“Even a nation brainwashed to equate artsiness with art knows when its eyelids are drooping.”
― B.R. Myers, A Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose

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“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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