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More than ever, families socialize together: Going out to dinner usually means bringing the whole family along. Mothers’ time to themselves and time with adults both dropped by about seven hours a week from 1975 to 2000. Employed mothers’ ...more
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Charles Yu
“I tell TAMMY it will be all right. She says what will be all right? I say whatever you are crying about. She says that is exactly what she’s crying about. That everything is all right. That the world isn’t ending. That we’ll never tell each other how we really feel because everything is okay. Okay enough to just sit around, being okay. Okay enough that we forget that we don’t have long, that it’s late, late in this universe, and at some point in the future, it’s not going to be okay. Sometimes”
Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

J. Mark G. Williams
“The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.”
Mark Williams, Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

Kim Stanley Robinson
“Each reality is followed by one stranger than the last.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica

Kim Stanley Robinson
“To a very great extent human history has been the story of the unequal accumulation of harvested wealth, shifting from one centre of power to another, while always expanding the four great inequalities. This is history. Nowhere, as far as I know, has there ever been a civilization or moment when the wealth of the harvests, created by all, has been equitably distributed. Power has been exerted wherever it can be, and each successful coercion has done its part to add to the general inequality, which has risen in direct proportion to the wealth gathered; for wealth and power are much the same. The possessors of the wealth in effect buy the armed power they need to enforce the growing inequality. And so the cycle continues.”
Kim Stanley Robinson, The Years of Rice and Salt

Robert M. Pirsig
“What’s wrong with technology is that it’s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. People haven’t paid much attention to this before because the big concern has been with food, clothing and shelter for everyone and technology has provided these. “But now where these are assured, the ugliness is being noticed more and more and people are asking if we must always suffer spiritually and esthetically in order to satisfy material needs.”
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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