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Justin Berk
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“When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?”
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog
― The Elegance of the Hedgehog

“Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.”
― Atlas of the Human Heart
― Atlas of the Human Heart

“This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love,”
― The Well of Ascension
― The Well of Ascension
“As a result of this creeping public fatalism, we now have depressingly low levels of civic participation, knowledge, engagement, and awareness. Political life has been subcontracted out to a band of professionals—money people, message people, outreach people. The rest of us are made to feel like amateurs, as in suckers. We become demotivated to learn more about how things work. And this pervasive power illiteracy becomes, in a vicious cycle, both a cause and a consequence of the concentration of opportunity, wealth, and clout in society.”
― You're More Powerful than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen
― You're More Powerful than You Think: A Citizen's Guide to Making Change Happen
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