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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
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“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

“When you are in love you know that love is a beggar, shameless as a beggar; and the responses of merely human pity can console one where love is absent by a false travesty of an imagined happiness.”
― Mountolive
― Mountolive
“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

“Those sorts of stories accumulated until they formed an archetype: the tragic yet resilient Iraqi woman, a metaphor for the country itself. In hindsight, it seems so facile to see Iraqi women only through the prism of their war-ravaged lives, but how else do you report a story where pain is etched on the face of every woman you interview?”
― Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
― Our Women on the Ground: Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

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