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Quote for Today: Viktor Frankl
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June 6, 2018 by katmcdaniel

The mental reactions of the inmates of a concentration camp must seem more to us than the mere expression of …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: concentration camps, decision, dignity, humanity, internal, Man's Search for Meaning, oppression, personality, reaction, resilience, resistance, self, Viktor Frankl, World War II
Resilience Does Not Forget: June 4, 1989 by Sherry Cheng
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June 4, 2018 by katmcdaniel

Years after a catastrophe, resilience continues to express itself. Memory lets us relive and reinterpret past events, unpacking things that …
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Category: Exploring Culture, Poetry | Tags: catastrophe, growth, history, humanity, June 4 1989, memory, oppression, resilience, Sherry Cheng, story, survival, Tiananmen Square, violence
Quote for Today: Herta Müller
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June 7, 2017 by katmcdaniel

It seems to me that the objects don’t know their material, the gestures don’t know their feelings, and the words …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: assertion, existence, freedom, gestures, Herta Müller, humanity, interpretation, mouth, objects, oppression, self, subversion, suspicion, words
Quote for Today: Wendell Berry
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December 8, 2016 by katmcdaniel

If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors’ prosperity …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: community, connectedness, Earth, goodwill, health, humanity, insurance, neighbor, oppression, sharing, The Agrarian Essays, The Art of the Commonplace, want, Wendell Berry
Quote for Today: Jean Rhys
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August 18, 2016 by katmcdaniel

“Well, let’s argue this out, Mr Blank. You, who represent Society, have the right to pay me four hundred …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: damage, damaged, Good Morning Midnight, humanity, inefficient, injustice, Jean Rhys, longing, monotony, oppression, schadenfreude, society, value, worry
Quote for Today: Bell Hooks
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May 21, 2016 by katmcdaniel

Fear is the primary force upholding structures of domination. It promotes the desire for separation, the desire not to be …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: All About Love, anonymity, Bell Hooks, conformity, connection, danger, domination, fear, humanity, illusion, love, oppression, safety, separation
Quote for Today: Stephen Jay Gould
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November 13, 2014 by katmcdaniel

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people …
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Category: Quote for Today | Tags: chance, fortune, genius, humanity, life, opportunity, oppression, Stephen Jay Gould, talent, The Panda's Thumb, unequal, waste

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