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I felt acutely embarrassed that my brilliance as a father had been exposed as wholly reliant upon her.
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers
Porter, Max
Life is both dreadful and wonderful. To practice meditation is to be in touch with both aspects.
Being Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh
Much of what free trade has brought about is what gets called “the race to the bottom,” the quest for the cheapest possible wages or agricultural production, with consequent losses on countless fronts. The argument is always that such moves make industry more profitable, but it would be more accurate to say that free trade concentrates profit away from workers and communities, for whom it is therefore far less profitable (and here the very term profit cries out for redefinition, for the stock market defines as profitable every kind of destruction and lacks terms for valuing cultures, diversities, or long-term wellbeing, let alone happiness, beauty, freedom, or justice).
Hope in the Dark
Rebecca Solnit
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