​"I assign myself no rank or any limit, and such an attitude is very much against the trend of the times. But my world has become one of infinite possibilities."

​— Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)

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​"The philosophy of our time has abandoned the critique of political economy, failing to see that industrial automation and market consumerism do not merely trade goods—they systematically short-circuit human desire, mind, and collective life."
— Bernard Stiegler

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The Tragedy of Ambition: Why Dreams Are Nobler

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​"The world is not a rectangle. You cannot measure it with a ruler. It is a wild, wet thing that grows out of its own skin."

Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989)

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Why does the human prioritize the authentic over the effective, even when the authentic is destructive?

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“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.”

Yohji Yamamoto, Legendary Japanese fashion designer

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​​I am the only thing that can be broken without being touched, and while a human can give me to another, I can never be seen, sold, or kept in a box. What am I?

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"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."
​— Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

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The Only Door Left Open: Why Marginalized Voices Dominate True Meritocracy

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​"It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

​— W. Somerset Maugham, The Mixing Bowl (1925)

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Reasonable humans must be aware that all of their friends are humans and not all of them are good ones.

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​"We are all tattooed with our history, but sometimes we forget the ink is there."
​— Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project

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“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.” — Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942)
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so. And some are made mad by the circumstance of holding a candle in a room where everyone else is blowing theirs out."

— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

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"Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life."

— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929)

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​"I want to be around people that do things. I don't want to be around people that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do."

— Poet & Author, E.E. Cummings

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​"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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​"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there."

— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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