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    Cover of The cost of living

    The cost of living

    Arundhati Roy · 1999

    Describes how India's ambitious dam projects created suffering along with modernization.

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    1. erbdexSep 2015
      “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”

      ― Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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    2. gtirloniMar 2015
      "The Cost of Living" by Barry Schwartz has a whole chapter about education that seems to explain this kind of situation very well.
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