"It's all about balance"
-Random hipstery guy at Market Basket, after overhearing me and my housemate debate whether more salt or more sugar was desirable in our tomato sauce.
"I always sleep so soundly when I'm in Sierra Leone"
-My advisor, in a quick chat we had about readjustment to life in the US and the stress that our constant multi-tasking here creates.
"Sepamos Combatir/Por Nuestro Honor/Nuestra libertad"/“Let us know how to fight for our honor and our liberty”
-Mural, Villa Victoria, a housing project in Boston's South End that is an example of community organization in the face of urban gentrification projects. Visited with some friends before going on a random and improvised culinary tour which included Peruvian, Ethiopian and Chinese food.
"They eat the flesh of their enemies, not because it is good, but because it is established custom"
-Antonio Pigafetta, who sailed around the world with Magellan, from a primary source document describing his travels and the peoples he met. Most of whom are described as either crazy or naked or both.
"To date, states have been far more effective in the destruction of housing than its construction"
-Mike Davis, Planet of Slums, a scathing look at the city in the modern era
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