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A batch of the best highlights from what Jophin's read, .

“Patience safeguards our peace of mind in the face of adversity. . . . It is a deliberate response (as opposed to an unreasoned reaction) to the strong negative thoughts and emotions that tend to arise when we encounter harm.”

Happiness

Matthieu Ricard

Harrow (2007), writing about the ‘third sector’ in the UK, argues that it is simultaneously underpaid (relying on volunteer or low-waged labour, because of the value-or ethos-driven character); overworked (both in terms of stretched organisations and individual workers); and overvalued (with unrealistic expectations about the scale and quality of third sector contributions).

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

The trees were still green, the sky still blue, which counted for something. So they went ahead and plugged their smelly paradise—God’s Own Country they called it in their brochures—because they knew, those clever Hotel People, that smelliness, like other peoples’ poverty, was merely a matter of getting used to. A question of discipline. Of Rigor and Air-conditioning. Nothing more.

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

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