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“Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.”
― Theodore Kaczynski

“Bridget cried for the leavers and the left. For the people, like herself, grimly forsaking what few precious gifts they would ever get. She cried for Bailey, for Tibby, for the resolute clump of cells making headway in her uterus, and for Marly, her poor, sad mother, who'd missed everything.”
― Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

“Because leftists are more likely to believe in the innate, inner quality of all people, they attribute the world's inequalities to outer, structural injustices. In particular, the left sees many power hierarchies as unmerited and exploitative. Leftist morality is rooted in the imperative to equalize, to various extents, discrepancies in power (especially through education). Compared with conservatives, leftists have a lower tolerance for inequality.
In this leftist worldview, evil comes primarily from undeserved inequalities in strength or power: from capitalists who exploit workers, unscrupulous corporations that deceive consumers, colonialists who leach off third-world countries, soldiers and police who abuse civilians, men who mistreat women, humans who disrespect the animals and plants in their environment, and so on.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“You left us.'

Us. Not Tamlin. Us. The words echoed into the dark, toward the howling wind and lashing snow beyond the bend.

'I told you that day in the woods: you abandoned me long before I ever physically left.' I shivered again, hating every point of contact, that I so desperately needed his warmth. 'You fit into the Spring Court as little as I did, Lucien. You enjoyed its pleasures and diversions. But don't pretend you weren't made for something more than that.'

His metal eye whirred. 'And where, exactly, do you believe I will fit in? The Night Court?'

I didn't answer. I didn't have one.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“The highly open expose themselves to new experiences, cultures, people, relationships, norms, ideas, worldviews, art, music, sexual practices, and drugs. They can get infected by nasty, maladaptive memes; they might end up believing in astrology, homeopathy, or Scientology.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“Haidt shows that people of different political persuasions draw on different intuitive concepts -or moral foundations- when thinking about right or wrong.”
― Bradley Campbell, The Rise of Victimhood Culture: Microaggressions, Safe Spaces, and the New Culture Wars

“The peace and quiet we seek left home for nature.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“As is true of most people, I imagine, I had experienced a number of turning points in my life, where I could go either left or right. And each time I chose one, right or left. (There were times when there was a clear-cut reason, but most of the time there wasn't. And it wasn't always like I was making a choice, but more like the choice itself chose me.) And now here I was, a first person singular. If I'd chosen a different direction, most likely I wouldn't be here. But still â€� who is that in the mirror.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“You do not realize how bad the past relationship was until you have left and the fog of confusion clears.”
― Steven Magee

“In politics, the near future is likely to be closer to George Orwell’s 1984 than to Brave New World.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“The second I realized I had nothing left to say is the exact moment I realized it was truly over.”
― Dominic Riccitello

“The hurricane Ian aftermath left many people unemployed.”
― Steven Magee

“My health noticeably degraded while working at the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm and it improved after I left.”
― Steven Magee

“Cultural disgust to bizarre new ideas protects low-openness people not only from psychosis, but from maladaptive memes. They may not adopt useful new ideas very quickly, but neither do they join suicide cults.”
― Geoffrey Miller, Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior

“I know them, the American men (and women) of the left. Talking to them always makes me feel like the worst kind of dissident, a right-wing freak (or a Republican, at best), even if I consider myself an honest social democrat. For every mild criticism of life in the system I have been living under for the last forty years they look at me suspiciously, as if I were a CIA agent... But one can hardly blame them. It is not the knowledge about communism they lack - I am pretty sure they know all about it - it's the experience of living under such conditions. So, while I am speaking from 'within' the system itself, they are explaining it to me from without. I do not want to claim that you have to be a hen to lay an egg, only that a certain disagreement between two starting points is normal. But they don't go for that; they need to be right.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

“Perhaps to them and their peers their ecological consciousness is a bigger sign of prestige than a fur coat. Perhaps they feel on more equal terms with the world. I admit I saw the future in them. But they were aggressive and I didn't like it, in spite of their concern for animals. On the other hand, perhaps they are too young to understand that human beings are an endangered species and that they too have a right to protection - particularly in some parts of the world. I hope they learn this soon.”
― Slavenka Drakulić, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

“For being left behind,
learned to say goodbye
before being left behind again.”
― Augusto Branco

“After I left healthcare, I never worked in the field again.”
― Steven Magee

“I was considering going to work at one of the highest observatories in the world before I left professional astronomy.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Contact with the police has left many people with a bad experience.”
― Steven Magee

“The problem with playing hide-and-seek with you sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops looking for you.

And there you are—under the couch, in the closet, wedged behind the lilac tree—and you don't want to give up, because maybe she's just biding her time. But maybe she's wandered off...

Maybe she's downstairs watching TV and eating the rest of the Pringles.

You wait. You wait until you forget that you're waiting, until you forget that there's anything to you beyond stillness and quiet; an ant crawls over your knee, and you don't flinch. And it doesn't matter now whether she's coming for you—the hiding is enough. (You win when no one finds you, even if they're not looking.)

When you break from behind the tree, it's because you want to. It's the first breath after a long dive. Branches snap under your feet, and the world is hotter and brighter. Ready or not, here I come.

Here I come, ready or not.”
― Cather Avery

“When you look back, you see things either you've left or they"ve, this is reminding you that everything's going and temporary..”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“...political orientations are natural dispositions that have been molded by evolutionary forces. Taken together, those deeply ingrained poitiacl orientations form what could be called "The Universal Political Animal".”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“...political orientations are natural dispositions that have been molded by evolutionary forces. Taken together, those deeply ingrained poitical orientations form what could be called "The Universal Political Animal".”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“Some people describe themselves as -spiritual-. Spirituality usually entails a more xenophilic attraction to religious traditions of out-groups, with a simultaneous rejection of the limitations of one's own religion.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“...books about travel, cultural memorabilia (such as trinkets from vacations), travel tickets, and books about -ethnic matters-. The presence of international maps showing countries other than the United States, as well as world-music CDs, also had very significant correlations with left-of-center self-placements.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“Left or right, people are not as cooperative as they believe themselves to be. Political candidates have huge incentives to be seen as superhuman altruists; these incentives magnify the potential for self-deception.”
― Avi Tuschman, Our Political Nature: The Evolutionary Origins of What Divides Us

“Being labeled a ‘haterâ€� is the figment of an imagination that is desperate to justify its hatred of me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You almost saved me until you saw how steep my ledge was so you gave up, convinced I was not worth the fall; now you will never know.”
― Stephanie Bennett-Henry

“I write the right. I do the left.”
― Dominic Riccitello