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Misguidedness Quotes

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Jared Diamond
“People often ask, "What is the single most important environmental population problem facing the world today?" A flip answer would be, "The single most important problem is our misguided focus on identifying the single most important problem!”
Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Audre Lorde
“Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.”
Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Criss Jami
“With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.”
Criss Jami, Healology

E.D.E.N. Southworth
“The unregenerate human heart is, perhaps,the most inconsistent thing in all nature; and in nothing is it more capricious than in the manifestations of its passions; and in no passion is it so fantastic as in that which it miscalls love, but which is really often only appetite.”
E.D.E.N. Southworth, Capitola's Peril

Criss Jami
“I do not much trust the man who cares solely to inspire - he does not really inspire me - only the man who cares mostly to tell the truth, whatever that may do. For when the man who cares to tell the truth happens to inspire, I, in addition, find it easier to believe that he in fact does his homework on how and when one should truly inspire.”
Criss Jami, Healology

Soroosh Shahrivar
“These men mislead fools or misled fools themselves.
I rather take 12 breaths
and rely on my common sense.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, Letter 19