African Americans make up about 13 percent

“African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.”

— Xavier Becerra

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Without fullness of experience, length of days

“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.”

— Lewis Mumford

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Category: experience
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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the

“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: art
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