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Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
“We are now surrounded, outmanned, and outgunned by a generation of phonies, grasping for acceptance through appearance and behavior that have no productive impact on the world.”
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
“Hierarchies serve an important function. They enable complete strangers to know how to treat one another without wasting the time and energy needed to become personally acquainted.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“There is no honor in sending people to die for something you won’t even fight for yourself.”
― No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
― No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
“The beauty of progress is that it makes it easier for you to carve out a space to be nonproductive.”
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
― Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You
“Most sows are repeatedly inseminated, brood after brood, till their bodies give way and they go to slaughter. But while they’re still useful, they’re made to nurse—strapped to their sides in a farrowing crate, legs apart, nipples exposed. Pigs are extremely smart, sociable creatures, and this forced assembly-line intimacy makes the nursing sows want to die. Which, as soon as they dry up, they do.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
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