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#1 Somatics is the art of listening to your body and understanding what you feel. It helps you understand what you want and need, and it helps you develop self-knowledge and change.
#2 Somatics is a holistic methodology and theory of change that understands both personal and collective transformation through a radically different paradigm. It differs from approaches...
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#1 The inexpressible is contained in the expressed. This idea gets less attention than his more reverential Whereof one cannot speak thereof, one must be silent, but it is the deeper idea.
#2 I had spent a lifetime dedicated to the belief that words are not enough. I argued that words do more than simply name things. I read aloud to you the opening of Philosophical Investigations.
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#1 I didn't know what was happening because I was too focused on work, but later learned that the towers had been attacked.
#2 I was in New York City on September 11, 2001, when the towers got attacked. I witnessed the collapse of both towers, and the death of my friend Joe. I was never the same after that.
#3 9/11 was the event that catalyzed my own personal transformation....
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#1 Ageism is the discrimination against older people, and it is pervasive in American society. It is a combination of prejudicial attitudes towards older people, old age, and aging itself.
#2 As modernity took root in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, older members of society were reduced to a status of social inferiority. The young United States was a gerontocracy, where older...
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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.
#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke...
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#1 The German tombstone shortage is because the government controls death and funerals, and they require embalming before burial. This leads to a darkly humorous saying: If you feel unwell, take a vacation-you can't afford to die in Germany.
#2 Slavery is a great way to keep your costs down, but there is another reason why the granite is so cheap: the quarries...
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#1 The Teleological Argument states that the universe must have been designed by an intelligent creator because it is too complex to have arisen by chance. However, many scientists and philosophers have shown that complex systems can arise without a designer.
#2 The idea of complexity by design is flawed because it assumes that all complex things require an intelligent...
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#1 In 2003, Robert Lucas, a professor at the University of Chicago, gave the presidential address at the American Economic Association's annual meetings. He declared that the central problem of depression prevention had been solved, and that modern macroeconomic policy had reduced the problem to the point that it was more of a nuisance than a front-rank issue.
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#1 When I was six years old, my mother died. I was sent to spend a week with my grandmother. I was now old enough to begin to think about the future, and I asked myself what they would do with me. I felt sure I would never find another mistress as kind as the one who was gone.
#2 My mistress, who was a kindly woman, had taught me the precepts of God's Word. But when...
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#1 In 2014, Sharnalle Mitchell was arrested and brought to court because she owed the city of Montgomery money for traffic tickets. The judge ordered her to pay or stay in jail. She decided to stay in jail to protect her children.
#2 There are 2. 2 million people confined in prison and jail cells in the United States today. About 500,000 of those people are presumptively...
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#1 We all experience shame, and it is a silent, yet extremely destructive, force that affects everyone. It is the sense of worthlessness that comes from being embarrassed, and it can be triggered by someone else's criticism of you.
#2 The journey that opened my eyes to the insidious dominance of shame in our lives began when I was a pudgy girl living with her two overweight...
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#1 There are two ways to experience the police in America: as the people you call when there is a problem, or as the people who are called on you. For many, the police are the ones who are called on them.
#2 I was a college student at the time, and I was carrying weed to a Republican convention. I was almost caught, but fortunately nothing bad came out of it. With...
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#1 You are the first, and you have often been the only. You are the first Black woman in more educational settings or professional settings than you can count. You have accomplished more than most people in your family and community have.
#2 First and Only is a love letter, a manifesto for progress, and a leadership resource. It is the opening argument to a...
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#1 You can alter a situation to make people feel more valued or included, even in seemingly minor ways.
#2 You can make your underlings feel more valued in seemingly minor ways.
#3 You can alter a situation to make people feel more valued or included, even in seemingly minor ways.
#4 You can use situation-crafting to create a mission that cannot be accomplished unless...
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#1 France was ruled by the nobility, the clergy, and the Third Estate, or commoners. The Tiers-État, or Third Estate, were the peasants, merchants, and workers. The French Revolution was the result of the Tiers-État waking up and realizing their inequalities, and the French monarchy not addressing them.
#2 The Illuminati took advantage of the unstable climate...
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#1 In 1986, the nuclear physicist Stanislav Shushkevich thought the institute's reactor was bleeding radiation. It was in people's hair and clinging to their clothes. It was near danger levels at the front door.
#2 When someone finally called the institute to report an accident at Chernobyl, it was already too late. The graphite core of the massive, concrete-encased...
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#1 I'm not sure if my experience is the same as others, but I do have faith in talking to each other. We are communal creatures who must mirror each other to know who we are. Every living thing ages and dies, yet humans seem to be the only species that thinks about aging and dying.
#2 I was writing an anthology of famous and not-so-famous last words and death scenes,...
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#1 I had traveled to central France to see the Black Madonna of Mauriac, a dark-skinned version of the Virgin Mary. I had longed to see a sacred image of Black femininity, and I was finally able to do so. But I was also nervous about being punished for breaking the rules.
#2 The delegitimizing stereotype of sloppy, dirty, lazy, and worthless is often used against...
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#1 The American creed, which is the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence, embodies the political principles of liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, human rights, the rule of law, and private property.
#2 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a response to the inequality African Americans had faced for years, and it was signed into law by President Lyndon...
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#1 The story of Holmes's journey toward enlightenment is a tale of how he spent the majority of his life as a judge, and how he enjoyed it. He was a judge because it gave him the opportunity to indulge his taste for abstraction, while still being able to keep his hands clean.
#2 Holmes's reputation was mixed in 1918. He was a great judge, but he was also a bit obscure,...
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