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Katherine Boo

American

August 12, 1964

Journalist

A great deal of what is presumed to be intractable or inevitable in this world doesn't strike me that way at all.

Tags: Great Me Way

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

Tags: Work Education People

There's some way in which we would prefer not to see very clearly the immense gifts and intelligence of some of the people who live in our most abject conditions. Maybe there are some things at work in deciding who gets to be society's winners and who gets to be society's losers that don't have to do with merit.

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