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“I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.”
― The Tequila Worm
― The Tequila Worm
“Has the press piled on Donald Trump? Of course it has. But no matter what Sean Hannity tells you, this is not the smoking gun of anti-Republican bias. It is simply an eyewitness account of historic depravity.”
― American Manifesto: Saving Democracy From Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
― American Manifesto: Saving Democracy From Villains, Vandals, and Ourselves
“Subscribe to your local newspaper. Donate to your public radio and TV stations. If you read 'The New York Times' or 'The Washington Post' or 'The Guardian' or the 'Chicago Tribune' online, subscribe to them. In point of fact, journalistic information is not free. It is dear--in every way. If you complain about fake news but don't pay for real news, you are part of the problem.”
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“She finally comprehended parenthood’s strange paradox: that it was deeply annihilating while at the same time also somehow deeply comforting. It was both soul-devouring and soul-filling.”
― Wellness
― Wellness
“Here, Elizabeth thought, was an answer for her strange new client. How could United Airlines make its customers happy with a below-average experience? By making the experience much, much worse, and making people voluntarily choose to endure it. This was the solution! Make the seats even narrower, the lines even longer, the competition for overhead space even more cutthroat—make it all famously bad and then tell people that they could avoid all of it and have a more or less normally below-average experience for a modest fee. Thus, if they knew beforehand that the experience would be dreadful but they didn’t pay the fee to avoid it, they would be less unhappy about the dreadful experience because, ultimately, they chose to have it. They did it to themselves. It”
― Wellness
― Wellness
Greater Rochester Book Club
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— last activity Mar 10, 2020 10:20AM
Members make book recommendations related to our shared interests: Memoirs that help us step into another's life Non-fiction books which open our un ...more
The Life After Podcast & Community Book Club
— 25 members
— last activity Jan 23, 2018 07:29AM
The Life After Podcast and Community holds space for people who are leaving Christian Fundamentalism and other oppressive religion.
Rochester and Upstate New York
— 73 members
— last activity May 05, 2020 02:36AM
Books set in Upstate New York State (Rochester, Finger Lakes, Central and Western New York), books by Upstate authors.
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