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1 " The conundrum of the twenty-first (century) is that with the best intentions of color blindness, and laws passed in this spirit, we still carry instincts and reactions inherited from our environments and embedded in our being below the level of conscious decision. There is a color line in our heads, and while we could see its effects we couldn’t name it until now. But john powell is also steeped in a new science of “implicit bias,” which gives us a way, finally, even to address this head on. It reveals a challenge that is human in nature, though it can be supported and hastened by policies to create new experiences, which over time create new instincts and lay chemical and physical pathways. This is a helpfully unromantic way to think about what we mean when we aspire, longingly, to a lasting change of heart. And john powell and others are bringing training methodologies based on the new science to city governments and police forces and schools. What we’re finding now in the last 30 years is that much of the work, in terms of our cognitive and emotional response to the world, happens at the unconscious level. "
― , Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
2 " The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. "
― Pawan Mishra , Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
3 " Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. Some say that the main cause of this very serious difficulty lies in the fact that human beings are basically made of clay, which, as the encyclopedias helpfully explain, is a detrital sedimentary rock made up of tiny mineral fragments measuring one two hundred and fifty-sixths of a millimeter. Until now, despite long linguistic study, no one has managed to come up with a name for this. "
― José Saramago , The Cave
4 " Jake eyed his brother. " I never forget. All data is stored in my memory banks. And one day, candy pig, you will pay." " You 're such a geek." " Thesbo." " That's Jack's latest insult." Seth gestured with his wine-glass. " A play on thespian, since Kev's into that." " Rhymes with lesbo," Jake explained helpfully while Anna stifled a groan. " It's a slick way of calling him a girl. "
5 " A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. "
― Albert Schweitzer
