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"To unlock the joy of being wrong, we need to detach. I've learned that two kinds of detachment are especially useful: detaching your p ...more "
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"Work book club discussing part II today.
To me the biggest takeaway is the idea of strong yet fewer arguments if trying to win a debate - it runs counter to how the old LD debates were scored, where I'd lose points for every opposing point I didn't refute. But it was the same idea I was trying to communicate to my physical therapisit when he was trying to sell me on their services - less is more." — Feb 15, 2022 08:00AM
"Work book club discussing part II today.
To me the biggest takeaway is the idea of strong yet fewer arguments if trying to win a debate - it runs counter to how the old LD debates were scored, where I'd lose points for every opposing point I didn't refute. But it was the same idea I was trying to communicate to my physical therapisit when he was trying to sell me on their services - less is more." — Feb 15, 2022 08:00AM
We pushed through the pain because pain was the only meal on the menu, and we were having what everyone else who’d come before us and would come after us was having, namely a big ole shit sandwich large enough to feed thousands, a shit
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“It's because I'm tired of being branded a terrorist; tired that a human life lost in my country is no loss at all.”
― Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
― Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

“That day, I came to a stark realization. I was afraid of men, and the harder I fought, the more intense the fear became. I can't think of an experience that is more harrowing than a woman being sexually harassed or assaulted by a man.”
― Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
― Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

“And that can never be a mistake--to fly instead of staying in the nest with all the poop and everything that's in there.”
― Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better
― Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better

“How many times have we tried to stand up fully only for them to tell us that we're being violent for just trying to be whole, that our attempted wholeness was hurting them? They've lied to us for such a long time. And I think when we've been taught to be afraid of ourselves in such ways, we absorb some of our teachers' fear.”
― Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir
― Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir

“All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.”
― Priestdaddy
― Priestdaddy

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