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“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece.”
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
― Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
“Life is not a competition between men and women, it is a collaboration.”
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“The most pleasurable things we do
Are not always priced so high
Like listening to a young child laugh
Or looking at the sky”
― A Woman's Place: The Complete Poetry Collection of Margaret Oliver
Are not always priced so high
Like listening to a young child laugh
Or looking at the sky”
― A Woman's Place: The Complete Poetry Collection of Margaret Oliver
“It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas or feelings proves the validity of these ideas and feelings. Nothing is further from the truth. Consensual validation as such has no bearing on reason or mental health. Just as there is a "folie a deux" there is a folie a millions. The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
― The Sane Society
― The Sane Society
“The President in particular is very much a figurehead — he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage. For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it. On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had — he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
― The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Margaret’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Margaret’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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147 friends
42 books
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43 books
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153 books
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