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From a letter by Ignatius Sancho - a Black shop owner and composer in London in the 1700s - to Laurence Sterne, author of 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman': "Consider slavery – what it is – how bitter a draught – and how many millions are made to drink it!" https://t.co/2buBiFcKuI

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"Summary requires a sense of the whole, and discernment about what particulars matter most. It is selective and strategic. It is an effort to bring people up to speed or enable them to participate even if they come late to the conversation." – Marilyn McEntyre, Make a List

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From a letter by Ignatius Sancho - a Black shop owner and composer in London in the 1700s - to Laurence Sterne, author of 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman': "Consider slavery – what it is – how bitter a draught – and how many millions are made to drink it!" https://t.co/2buBiFcKuI

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"As Suzuki-roshi used to say about getting up when the alarm rings, 'Never make the same decision twice.'" – Gail Sher, One Continuous Mistake

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@Jenni_Hill Frances Hardinge's Deeplight uses Lovecraftian undersea monstrosities as monarchy analogue. People are terrified of them, regularly get slaughtered by them, but they're also weirdly proud & defensive of them, like "they're our country's traditional monsters, right or wrong"

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"To the wise man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hands – he uses both to his advantage." – Pete Walker, The Tao of Fully Feeling (on CPTSD)

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"He backed away and held the gun higher. Without it he was nothing. But he had it." – Ross MacDonald, The Drowning Pool

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"They must not lose hope but should keep their courage in the certainty that the hopelessness of our struggle did not detract from its dignity and its meaning." – Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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From a letter by Ignatius Sancho - a Black shop owner and composer in London in the 1700s - to Laurence Sterne, author of 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman': "Consider slavery – what it is – how bitter a draught – and how many millions are made to drink it!" https://t.co/2buBiFcKuI

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Just finished reading The Immortality Thief by @TaranHunt and can't recommend it enough, so much fun. Fast-paced adventure sci-fi with a side of linguistics and upsetting genetic monsters. The phrase "mouth clotted with teeth" keeps coming back into my head *shudder* https://t.co/HHcb8gzpac

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