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“Critical thinking is not as reflexive as you may first believe. Think of how effective social media misinformation has been. So effective that it has been easily weaponized by nation states. The battlefield has moved from landmines to the minds of citizens. It is not the medium that is at fault it is the consumer. Our human nature makes us sitting ducks. We are prepared to believe most things as long as they align with our preconceptions or predispositions.”
― Marie Henein, Nothing But the Truth

“You are no different from a man, my mother's lullaby that she thankfully continued to whisper to me over the next several years as I started to build my career.”
― Marie Henein

“Maintaining the social contract required trust, it required that we see ourselves as bound together if not as a family then at least as a community each member worthy of concern and able to make claims on the whole. It required us to believe that whatever actions the government might take to help those in need were available to you and people like you that nobody was gaming the system and the misfortunes or stumbles or circumstances that caused others to suffer were ones to which you at some point in your life might fall prey. Over the years that trust proved difficult to sustain.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop.”
― Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller