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‘People are so damn sensitive about colour around here that you can’t even ask a barman for a jigger of rum. You have to ask for a jegro.’
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“Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them. A pity. In so doing, such unfortunates are deceiving no self-thinking person, for they reveal much about themselves and little about their targets.”
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“Joan McCord was a pioneer iconoclast who was willing to question whether well-meaning, beneficial-sounding programs truly met the goal of helping their subjects. McCord found that social programs almost never constructed the procedures needed to reliably evaluate their success. In fact, she found that those working in social interventions often took affront to anyone who wanted to evaluate their programs, since they felt good intentions alone should have been a guarantee of their effectiveness.”
― Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
― Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
“Ἀθάνατοι θνητοί, θνητοὶ ἀθάνατοι, ζῶντες τὸν ἐκείνων θάνατον τὸν δὲ ἐκείνων βίον τεθνεῶτες.
(Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living out the other's death, dying out the other's life)”
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(Immortals are mortal, mortals are immortal, living out the other's death, dying out the other's life)”
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“Second-skilling isn’t necessarily about a job—it’s also about respecting your multifaceted ability to be good at different things.”
― Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
― Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential
“The more I have studied disparities in multicultural societies, the more I have found the language of “overrepresentation” and “underrepresentation” to be fundamentally misleading. These words assume that there is something normal or “to be expected” about seeing different ethnic groups represented at precisely their share of the total population in every domain, statistic, and occupation, when in fact nothing is more normal than for different subcultures to specialize in particular sectors and occupations and experience very different group-wide statistics as a result. The vast majority of such disparities are not plausibly explained by bigotry, systemic racism, or unfairness but by demographic and cultural differences between the groups in question at a particular time.”
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
― The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
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