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He’d once read that a person’s largest source of unhappiness resided within themselves, not with any outside forces, and Luke completely agreed.
“The church shifted from a place of emotional solace for all to a place where on Mother’s Day men are told to venerate women and on Father’s Day chastised for having insufficiently venerated them. It likewise shifted from a place where men could meet women of similar faith to a place where women seeking forgiveness are officially presented as though it is your duty as a man to forgive them.”
― Praxeology, Volume 1: Frame: On self actualization for the modern man
― Praxeology, Volume 1: Frame: On self actualization for the modern man
“Those people who post pictures of their dinner on Facebook, only to be disappointed by the lack of “likes” from friends, are simply trying to appeal to the wrong audience. If there were such a thing as Facebug (Facebook for microbes!), a picture of your dinner would provoke an excited response from millions of users—and shudders of disgust from millions more. The menu changes daily: useful milk digesters contained in a cheese sandwich, armies of Salmonella bacteria hiding in a delicious dish of tiramisu.”
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
― Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body’s Most Underrated Organ
“A lot of students just don’t understand what’s out there,” she told me, shaking her head. “You have the kids who plan on being baseball players but don’t even play on the high school team because the coach is mean to them.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“We don’t study as children, and we don’t make our kids study when we’re parents. Our kids perform poorly in school. We might get angry with them, but we never give them the tools—like peace and quiet at home—to succeed.”
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
― Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
“The screen went black before I was out of the airlock. Turns out the “L” in “LCD” stands for “Liquid.” I guess it either froze or boiled off. Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― The Martian
― The Martian
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