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“While traditionalism can thwart the planners and molders of industry, education, and society in general, fatalism can so stultify a people that passive resignation becomes the approved norm, and acceptance of undesirable conditions becomes the way of life.”
― Jack E. Weller, Yesterday's People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia

tags: appalachia, education, fatalism, folk, traditionalism

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“I call it Dewey’s rule, and it stands for the idea that parents should try to arrange things so that, on average, their children end up in the 30th percentile of stuff.”
― Ron Lieber, The Opposite of Spoiled: Raising Kids Who Are Grounded, Generous, and Smart About Money

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“Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.”
― Harry S. Truman

tags: diplomacy, tact

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“I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".”
― Tim Minchin

tags: black-humor, grumpiness, humor, relativism, sarcasm, spirituality

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“I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that happen here do not seem to mean anything; they mean something somewhere else. Somewhere else retribution will come on the real offender. Here it often seems to fall on the wrong person.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

tags: earth, faith, heaven

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