We know ourselves by understanding our temporality, our embeddedness in time, our connection to roots-even roots from which we have knowingly severed ourselves. (Benjamin Barber)

We know ourselves by understanding our temporality, our embeddedness in time, our connection to roots-even roots from which we have knowingly severed ourselves.

Benjamin Barber

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