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“...the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the real class divide is between those who can borrow money and those who can’t. Because no matter how much money anyone earns, they still lie awake at the end of the month worrying about money. Everyone looks at what their neighbors have and wonders, ‘How can they afford that?’ because everyone is living beyond their means. So not even really rich people ever feel really rich, because in the end the only thing you can buy is a more expensive version of something you’ve already got. With borrowed money.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“Humans are so ill-equipped for peace.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“One thing that we, as a society, don’t fully acknowledge is just how difficult, how taxing, how utterly exhausting and draining it is to care for little children. It is work, in the purest, rawest sense of the word.”
― If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
― If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie
“Building a life on solid accomplishment is more difficult than being an antiwar veteran and confessing one's guilt in public.”
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“The Bureaus of Prisons in states across America know this well; many of them project the number of prison beds they will need in the future based on third- or fourth-grade reading statistics.”
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
― Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
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