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Also I didn't have 20/20 vision which you needed to be a pilot. But I said you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.
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Mark Haddon (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
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We could plan for nothing. The word for 2020 was surrender. Surrender your plans, your wishes, and your sense
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Mary Pipher (A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence)
“
Maybe you have seen
the shape of a tree
shimmer and fly apart
as a flock of birds.
Maybe you have heard
birds awaken a landscape
into a dream. Maybe for you
it became a way of knowing
how the notes in their throats
pulse an afternoon, measure
distance, reveal a hidden
grid of a thousand kingdoms
calling, responding. If you have
seen a sudden meteor streak
the night too brief for wishes
then you know the way
the sky can surprise.
— Amy Sage Webb Baza, from “Epistemology,” 18 December 2020
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Amy Sage Webb
“
Nor do we experience the mechanisms that convert our desires into movements. When I wished to begin hiking up the mountain again, I would simply set off, without thinking about the individual muscle contractions that each step required. When a wasp flies, it is probably not aware of its every wing beat. It may simply will itself through space.
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Michio Kaku (The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2020)
“
One day I’ll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don’t know that I’ve ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she’s never stopped being interested in things. She’s never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.
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David Sedaris (A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries (2003-2020))
“
All of that stuff is true. All the other worlds that human beings believe in, via group myths or spiritual visitations or even imaginations if they're vivid enough, they exist. Imagining a world creates it, if it isn't already there. That's the great secret of existence: it's supersensitive to thought. Decisions, wishes, lies—that's all you need to create a new universe. Every human being on this planet spins off thousands between birth and death, although there's something about the way our minds work that keeps us from noticing. In every moment, we're continually moving in multiple dimensions—we think we're sitting still, but we're actually falling from one universe to the next to the next, so fast that it all blends together like . . . like animation. Except there's a lot more than just images flipping past.
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N.K. Jemisin (The City We Became (Great Cities, #1))
“
First: I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose, therefore I demand of myself persistent, aggressive and continuous action toward its attainment. Second: I realize that the dominating thoughts of my mind eventually reproduce themselves in outward, bodily action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore I will concentrate My mind for thirty minutes daily upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to be, by creating a mental picture of this person and then transforming that picture into reality through practical service. Third: I know that through the principle of Autosuggestion, any desire that I persistently hold in my mind will eventually seek expression through some practical means of realizing it, therefore I shall devote ten minutes daily to demanding of myself the development of the factors named in the sixteen lessons of this Reading Course on the Law of Success. Fourth: I have clearly mapped out and written down a description of my definite purpose in life, for the coming five years. I have set a price on my services for each of these five years; a price that I intend to earn and receive, through strict application of the principle of efficient, satisfactory service which I will render in advance. Fifth: I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure unless built upon truth and justice, therefore I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. I will succeed by attracting to me the forces I wish to use, and the co-operation of other people. I will induce others to serve me because I will first serve them. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness and cynicism by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me because I will believe in them and in myself. I will sign my name to this formula, commit it to memory and repeat it aloud once a day with full faith that it will gradually influence my entire life so that I will become a successful and happy worker in my chosen field of endeavor.
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Napoleon Hill (Law of Success in 15 Lessons (2020 edition))
“
You may not wish to harm someone in your pursuit of a celebrity or winning status, but regardless of the degree of superiority you seek, it is that self-serving portion of you from which all evil stems.
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James Carwin (Pleiadian Prophecy 2020: The New Golden Age)
“
Have you ever wished to be a celebrity? Or how about an athletic champion? Did you ever fantasize about being wealthy, famous, powerful, or superior to other people in any way? The desire to put yourself above others is the root of all evil.
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James Carwin (Pleiadian Prophecy 2020: The New Golden Age)
“
the Israeli state has used NSO to further its national security agenda, perhaps most prominently in securing the support of Arab dictatorships: Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. For example, in 2020, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman called then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to demand that his country’s access to Pegasus be restored when the Israeli Defense Ministry declined to renew the tool’s license after the Sunni theocracy had abused it.6 He was soon granted his wish because Israel viewed Saudi Arabia as a key ally against Iran in the Middle East.
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Antony Loewenstein (The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World)
“
During the forty years from 1978 to 2018, typical workers saw their compensation rise by a meager 12 percent; CEO compensation, meanwhile, ballooned by 940 percent. As of 2020, home health and personal care aides, one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy, took home $27,080 per year on average. Other workers who provide socially necessary care, like preschool teachers, take home just over $30,500 a year. Food and service workers, meanwhile, take home just $21,250 a year. For the 7.5 million US residents who work these three jobs—and for the families dependent on them—staying afloat is a constant struggle, if not an impossibility. I wish I could say these occupations were the anomaly, but they’re not. What was once America’s working class is today its working poor.19 The
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Mark V. Paul (The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights)
“
Back in late March 2020, standing in the Rose Garden -- hundreds of thousands of deaths ago -- President Donald Trump said, "I wish we could have our old life back. We had the greatest economy that we've ever had, and we didn't have death."
We've always had death. We've just avoided its gaze. We hide it so we can forget it, so we can go on believing it won't happen to us. But during the pandemic, death felt closer and possible, and everywhere -- to everyone. We are the survivors of an era defined by death. We will have to move the furniture of our minds to accommodate this newly visible guest.
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Hayley Campbell (All the Living and the Dead)
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Nations that had spent a thousand years under tyrants did not transform into free republics overnight because the United States wished them to do so. Elections alone did not a democracy make; they could bring strongmen to power and keep them there. Democracy, as it developed, could not be easily exported; it was not a commodity like soybeans or sneakers but an ideal that lived in the mind.
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Tim Weiner (The Folly and the Glory: America, Russia, and Political Warfare 1945–2020)
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Advent Season by Stewart Stafford
A house bedecked in verdant wonderment,
With lights that mirror the starry firmament,
Where the Christmas Star did once shine,
To guide worshippers to the Divine.
The wreath on the door is a welcome portal,
For any passing cheerful mortal,
Wishing to enjoy warm company,
And mountains of gravy-drowned turkey.
Nostrils fill with cooking scents,
That waft through the house with excitement
A feast to consume on the 25th,
After the Man in Red has paid a visit.
Children orchestrate great noise,
And sit and play with gifted toys,
While adults watch and reminisce,
On childhoods past and favourite gifts.
The Wheel of Time turns,
Festivities End,
And the year itself begins again.
In Time's juvenile crawl,
Or adult speed,
Life zips forward, and history repeats.
© Stewart Stafford, 2020. All rights reserved.
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Stewart Stafford
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NEW YEAR HINDI SHAYARI 2021
इस रिश्ते को ऐसे ही बनाये रखना
दिल में अपनी यादों के चिराग जलाये रखना
बहुत प्यारा सफर रहा 2020 में आपके साथ
बस ऐसा ही 2021 में भी बनाये रखना।
नए साल की शुभकामनाएं
नये वर्ष की नयी उमंग है
नया जोश है नयी तरंग है
आप सभी को नए साल की शुभकामनाएँ
Happy New Year 2021 Hindi Shayari
हर नया साल आएगा
हर पुराना साल जाएगा
पर तेरा यह यार तुझको
कभी भुल ना पाएगा
नए साल की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं।
नया सवेरा नई किरण के साथ,
नया दिन एक प्यारी मुस्कान के साथ,
आपको नया साल मुबारक हो ढेर सारी दुआओं के साथ।
हैप्पी न्यू ईयर शायरी इन हिंदी
Happy New Year 2020 Wish Shayari in Hindi
नववर्ष का पत्र खोलने से पहले आपको मेरा नमस्ते,
ऊँगली में अंगूठी अंगूठी में नगीना,
बूलबूल की जिंदगी है पेड़ो की डाल पर,
नया साल मुबारक हो इस ग्रीटिंग कार्ड पर।
New Year Wish Shayari in Hindi
बीते साल को भूल जाएँ
आने वाले साल को गले लगाएँ
करते हैं हम प्रार्थना ईश्वर से
इस साल सारे सपने पूरे हों आपके
नव वर्ष की बहुत बहुत शुभकामनाएं
हिंदू मुस्लिम सिख ईसाई,
दिन गये हफ्ते गये और गये ये साल,
आपको हमारी तरफ से मुबारक हो नया साल।
Happy New Year Messages in Hindi
रब करे ये साल आपको रास आ जाये
जिसे आप चाहै, वो आपके पास आ जाये
आप इस साल कुंवारे न रहे,
आपका रिश्ता लेकर आपकी सास आ जाये
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Hinsmeer.blogspot.com
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Hollow (2020)
Written in response to the toppling of the Edward Colston statue in Bristol on Sunday 7th June 2020.
You came down easy in the end
the righteous wrench of two ropes in a grand plie
briefly, you flew
corkscrewed, then met the ground
with the clang of toy guns, loose change
chains
a rain of cheers.
Standing ovation on the platform of your neck
punk ballet. Act 1.
there is more to come.
And who carved you?
They took such care with that stately pose and propped chin.
Wise and virtuous the plaque assured us.
Victors wish history odourless and static
but history is a sneaky mistress
moves like smoke, Colston,
like saliva in a hungry mouth.
This is your rightful home
here, in the pit of chaos with the rest of us.
Take your twisted glory and feed it to the tadpoles.
Kids will write raps to that syncopated splash.
I think of you lying in that harbour
with the horrors you hosted.
There is no poem more succinct than that.
But still
you
are permanent.
You who perfected the ratio.
Blood to sugar to money to bricks.
Each bougie building we flaunt
haunted by bones.
Children learn and titans sing
under the stubborn rust of your name.
But the air is gently throbbing with newness.
Can you feel it?
Colston, I can’t get the sound of you from my head.
Countless times I passed that plinth
its heavy threat of metal and marble.
But as you landed a piece of you fell off
broke away
and inside
nothing but air.
This whole time
You were hollow.
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Vanessa Kisuule
“
Sometimes my voice
comes out of your mouth—
songs rush from the throats of weeds,
leaves fly back to trees,
and the moon peels back its skin
to show the sea
its great green heart.
— Linda Hillringhouse, from “Black Rattle,” The Things I Didn’t Know to Wish For (New York Quarterly Books, 2020)
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Linda Hillringhouse (The Things I Didn't Know to Wish For)
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DeRisi, because you really should write about him.” I was dubious. Carl was persuasive. I met Joe for a sandwich and came away wishing I had an excuse to write about him. Then, in late March 2020, I
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Michael Lewis (The Premonition: A Pandemic Story)
“
Postscript 2: My cancer friend passed away in April 2020. My alcoholic friend is probably going to die from the disease in due course. While my prayers seemed to temporarily help both situations, there remains this struggle with how, why and if prayer works. If prayers are not answered the way we wish, does it mean God doesn’t hear or care? Does it mean nothing changed? Does it mean we failed? Does it even mean anything? This subject has been thoroughly examined by many others and still cannot be fully answered. I happen to believe prayers help, even if things don’t go my way. We still die, we still fail, we still have suffering, pain and evil in this world. Yet, I choose to keep praying anyway. Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1. October 6, 2019 Salt packets.
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Susan I. Spieth (I Was a Stranger: Reflections From First-Time Visits to 50 Churches)
“
In April 2020, Business Breakthrough (BBT) University in Tokyo, Japan held a graduation ceremony for students using avatar robots remotely controlled by graduating students from their homes. The avatar robots, dubbed “Newme”, were dressed in graduation caps and gowns for the ceremony, complete with tablets projecting the graduates’ face. BBT hoped the approach could be used as a model for other schools wishing to avoid large gatherings amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Nayden Kostov (323 Disturbing Facts about Our World)
“
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alljobalert.info
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2020 Quarantine Killings
And they ask, 'How do black boys write about their city?
How do we know street if we don't know uncracked sidewalk?'
They ask, 'How do these Black boys know anything about their city?
How the buildings are sitting on corners where brothers' bodies
are still learning how to rot?'
There are small crosses placed in the grass where families cannot
afford to bury their loved ones,
reminds my brothers and I that we are early graves before we are anything else.
We call those corners playgrounds.
We call those corners the killing fields.
We call our bodies bullets, even if we were never aimed in the right direction.
We call the remnants of our mothers' family the disaspora tree.
We make a catalog of prayers out of broken hands.
We pray for our family tree to make its way back home to this soil.
We use our hands to dig the graves we cannot afford.
We are farmers of broken Black bodies.
We have never know city, never known comfort,
never know safe street in any city.
We use our feet to walk streets paved by sunlight
and ask our shadows if they meant to choose this skin.
We make a catalyst of bodies our dinner menu
and we eat with our eyes closed.
We are fed lies so easily it tastes like medicine.
Always conflicted between being Black and being people.
I wish God could've given us a choice.
For years, we have been told that there is something we need to scrub off this body,
as if this dirt could go away.
Working in the field make you realize how easily Black can cook in the sun,
how easily we turn on each other for a little slice of the pie.
We don't know this city, how it was built with our grandmothers' arthritic hands.
How we couldn't have gotten a house or a bed when it was first built,
when it was first settled, when it was first taken from the Indians,
when our gods believed in the same beginning.
We don't know home.
We know how generations of our people could use these legs,
could run miles on into the night,
our faces bedazzled with the remnants of the stars.
We will forever search for our forefathers' footsteps.
We don't know home. We know run.
We know this land has never been ours.
We know how to fold ourselves into nothing.
We know our sweat and tears tenderized this soil.
Somehow we make fertilizer for the soil.
We know how to make these hands be useful.
We are the farmers of every revolution.
No country was built without the piling up of dead bodies.
This country just happens to be where our dead were dragged and hung up.
America, the land of the free and home of the brave.
We fought and died for that slogan, right beside our white brothers.
And doesn't that make us worth something?
Tonight, a riot is the language of the unheard.
Playon Patrick
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Playon Patrick
“
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It’s also clever. Apple was able to take one core thing from the last Voldemort remote and translate it here: a swipeable area. But instead of it being the entire top of the remote and the main way to navigate and frustrate, it’s an almost hidden option unlocked by discovery. Simply glide your thumb over the top of the directional pad and voilà! You’re swiping. If you don’t wish to swipe, you don’t have to. You can click away to your heart’s content.² But actually swiping is a very useful method of input for much of the Apple TV’s core navigation. It just was absolutely awful for other bits. This remote gives you the best of both worlds.
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Then there’s the TV button. I still don’t fully understand this button. I know what it does: takes you to the Apple TV area of Apple TV which mainly highlights Apple TV+ content. (Yes, this is laughably confusing from a branding perspective.) But I wish you could program it. Say that you watch mainly Netflix content, it would make sense to have the TV button take you there. Or even better, YouTube TV since it’s actual TV content.³ I’m very happy we don’t have branded buttons on the Apple TV remote, but I would love some level of programmable granularity here.
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2020 Quarantine Killings by Playon Patrick
And they ask: how do black boys write about their city?
How do we know street if we don't know un-cracked sidewalk?
They ask: how do these black boys know anything about their city?
How the buildings are sitting on corners where brothers' bodies
are still learning how to rot.
There are small crosses placed in the grass
where families cannot afford to bury their loved ones
Reminds my brothers and I that we are early graves
before we are anything else.
We call those corners playgrounds,
We call those corners the killing fields.
We call our bodies bullets even if we were never aimed in the right direction
We called the remnants of our mother's family the Diaspora tree.
We make a catalog of prayers out of broken hands
We pray for our family tree to make its way back home to this soil.
We use our hands to dig the graves we cannot afford.
We are farmers - our broken black bodies -
We have never know city, never known comfort,
Never known safe street in any city.
We use our feet to walk streets paved by sunlight,
And asked our shadows if they meant to choose this skin.
We make a catalyst of bodies our dinner menu
And we eat with our eyes closed.
We are fed lies so easily it tastes like medicine.
Always conflicted between being black and being people.
I wish God could have given us a choice.
For years we have been told that there is something we need to scrub off this body
As if this dirt could go away
Working in the field make you realize how easily black can cook in the sun.
How easily we turn on each other for a little slice of the pie.
We don't know this city - how it was built with our grandmother's arthritic hands.
how we wouldn't have gotten a house or a bed when it was first built
When it was first settled - when it was first taken from the Indians
When our God believed in the same beginning.
We don't know home.
We don't know how generations of our people could use these legs
Could run miles on end into the night
Our faces bedazzled with the remnants of the stars
We will forever search for our forefathers' footsteps
We don't know home - we know run
We know this land has never been ours
We know how to fold ourselves into nothing
We know our sweat and tears tenderize this soil
Somehow we make fertilizer for the soil
We know how to make these hands be useful
We are the farmers of every revolution
No country was built without the piling up of dead bodies
This country just happens to be where our dead were dragged and hung up.
America: the land of the free and home of the brave
We fought and died for that slogan right beside our white brothers
Doesn't that make us worth something?
Tonight a riot is the language of the unheard
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Playon Patrick
“
Such comparisons with the mid-century heyday of Keynesianism no doubt help to capture the drama of the moment. They express the wish of many, on the left as well as the right, to return to that moment when the national economy was first constituted as an integrated and governable entity. As the interconnected implosion of demand and supply demonstrated, macroeconomic connections are very real. But as a frame for reading the crisis response in 2020, this retrofitting risks anachronism. The fiscal-monetary synthesis of 2020 was a synthesis for the twenty-first century.5 While it overturned the nostrums of neoliberalism, notably with regard to the scale of government interventions, it was framed by neoliberalism’s legacies, in the form of hyperglobalization, fragile and attenuated welfare states, profound social and economic inequality, and the overweening size and influence of private finance.
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Adam Tooze (Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy)
“
something Yuval Noah Harari said in a 2020 TED talk about what distinguishes humans from other animals: We humans control the world because we live in a dual reality. All other animals live in an objective reality. Their reality consists of objective entities, like rivers and trees and lions and elephants. We humans, we also live in an objective reality. In our world, too, there are rivers and trees and lions and elephants. But over the centuries, we have constructed on top of this objective reality a second layer of fictional reality, a reality made of fictional entities, like nations, like gods, like money, like corporations. And what is amazing is that as history unfolded, this fictional reality became more and more powerful so that today, the most powerful forces in the world are these fictional entities. Today, the very survival of rivers and trees and lions and elephants depends on the decisions and wishes of fictional entities, like the United States, like Google, like the World Bank — entities that exist only in our own imagination.
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Dan Conley (Ending Things: An Examination of “I’m Thinking of Ending Things")