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“I open it, feel the rush of steam leaving the bag and smell the unmistakable aroma of Corfu. Loukoumades. Drizzled with honey and dusted with a flourish of cinnamon. Sugared perfection in the form of golf-ball sized fried dough.”

Book:Slim to None

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“There is no sweet fellowship as having a true friend who will be there for you at all times: in times of victory, and in times of defeat, in times of success, and in times of sorrow, in times of plenty, and in times of scarcity, in times of sunshine and in times of darkness, in times of good health, and in times of sickness.”

Motivational Wise Words Friend Fellowship Times

Author:Lailah Gifty Akita

“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”

Humanity Friendship Humanity And Society Humanity Quotes Humanity Advice Othering

Book:Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

Source: Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair

“Only by moving out of fear and hatred can we truly manifest the vision of our founders-- not their actual vision, because they were limited, too, but the theoretical vision to which they aspired. The 'other side' is not the enemy. Fear and hatred are the enemies.”

Fear Vision Enemy Hatred Manifest Aspire Founding Fathers Othering Other Side Divine Discontent

Author:Shellen Lubin

“Why, he wondered, did he have to peddle his difference for their amusement, and yet at the same time temper it, suppress it, make it suitably benign?”

Difference Othering Exoticism

Book:Church of Marvels

Source: Church of Marvels

“I don’t believe there has ever been a more terrible weapon in this world than the word they.”

Language Weapons Words They Othering

Book:Sky Full of Elephants

Source: Sky Full of Elephants

“It doesn’t take a declaration, or an invasion, to start a war, all it takes is an ‘us’ and a ‘them.’ And a spark.”

War The Other Othering

Book:Seven Surrenders

Source: Seven Surrenders

“The big challenge of our time is to make sure that when our hearts break [amidst climate catastrophe] we stay open and connected and curious rather than coming up with stories to justify ourselves being violent to others that we have othered more than those closest to us.”

Love Prejudice Climate Change Bigotry Environmentalism Open Mindedness Othering

Author:Jem Bendell

“A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone.”

Racism Racist Eugenics Elitist Elitism Scientific Racism Othering

Author:A.E. Samaan

“The story of one life cannot be told separately from the story of other lives. Who are we? The question is not simple. What we call the self is part of a larger matrix of relationship and society. Had we been born to a different family, in a different time, to a different world, we would not be the same. All the lives that surround us are in us.”

War Relationships History Self Help Trauma Connectedness Otherness Othering

Book:A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Source: A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

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