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  1. A quotation from Gracian

    Few bothersome things are important enough to bother with. It is folly to take to heart what you should turn your back on. Many things that were something are nothing if left alone, and others that were nothing turn into much because we pay attention to them.
     
    [Pocas cosas de enfado se han de tomar de propósito, que sería empeñarse sin él. Es trocar los puntos tomar a pechos lo que se ha de echar a las espaldas. Muchas cosas que eran algo, dejándolas, fueron nada; y otras que eran nada, por haber hecho caso de ellas, fueron mucho.]

    Baltasar Gracián y Morales (1601–1658) Spanish Jesuit priest, writer, philosopher
    The Art of Worldly Wisdom [Oráculo Manual y Arte de Prudencia], § 121 (1647) [tr. Maurer (1992)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/gracian-y-morales-ba…

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  2. Against my better judgement I have been reading the Moynihan Report (because I am writing about race/racism in the field of child development), and it is truly hideous. It was hideous in 1965 and it is still hideous. It planted hideous ideas and they have grown and hideously flourished. #MoynihanReport #DanielPatrickMoynihan #Nixon #benignneglect