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If Mamaw could drop $180 on a graphing calculator—she insisted that I spend none of my own money—then I had better take schoolwork more seriously. I owed it to her, and she reminded me of it constantly. “Have you finished your work for that ...more
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Oliver Burkeman
“how normal it has become to feel as though you absolutely must do more than you can do.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Don DeLillo
“What good is knowledge if it just floats in the air? It goes from computer to computer. It changes and grows every second of every day. But nobody actually knows anything.”
Don DeLillo, Don DeLillo's White Noise

Wendell Berry
“The strict competences of independence, the formal mastery, the complexities of attitude and know-how necessary to life on the farm, which have been in the making in the race of farmers since before history, all are replaced by the knowledge of some fragmentary task that may be learned by rote in a little while.”
Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Yuval Noah Harari
“The right to the pursuit of happiness, originally envisaged as a restraint on state power, has imperceptibly morphed into the right to happiness – as if human beings have a natural right to be happy, and anything which makes us dissatisfied is a violation of our basic human rights, so the state should do something about it.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

Oliver Burkeman
“Attention, on the other hand, just is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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