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The question is: by what method can you reach the conclusion that a distribution of inequality we see in our society is the “result” of “genes” “rather than” “environment”? And the answer is, you can’t, because it’s the wrong question.
We Don’t Know Our Potential ❧ Current Affairs
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In his book Sabbath as Resistance, the Christian theologian Walter Brueggemann describes the sabbath as an invitation to spend one day per week “in the awareness and practice of the claim that we are situated on the receiving end of the gifts of God.” One need not be a religious believer to feel some of the deep relief in that idea of being “on the receiving end”—in the possibility that today, at least, there might be nothing more you need to do in order to justify your existence.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
How much his mother’s son he was, she said to herself: he had inherited her gift for loading the weight of his self-sacrifices onto others.
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai
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