Magic Hour
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few interesting behavioral observations and let them ask their questions.” “I’m sorry,” Ellie said. Julia tried to smile. “I’ve lived through it before. I guess I can live through it again. For Alice.” Julia could hear the racket
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“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
– Plato”
― 101 Indisputable Facts Proving Donald Trump Is An Idiot: A brief background of the most spectacularly unqualified person to ever occupy the White House.
– Plato”
― 101 Indisputable Facts Proving Donald Trump Is An Idiot: A brief background of the most spectacularly unqualified person to ever occupy the White House.
“You have to appeal to people’s best instincts, not their worst ones. You may win an election or so by doing the other, but it does a lot of harm to the country.”
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
― The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”
― Long Walk to Freedom
― Long Walk to Freedom
“while viewing other people as the cause of our unhappiness. By measuring ourselves against the achievements, possessions, or traits of everyone else, we set the stage for the disintegration of potentially fulfilling relationships.”
― Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking
― Declutter Your Mind: How to Stop Worrying, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Thinking
“Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, they cause most of the suffering in the world. They’re the judges, the meddlers. And, son, never trust a man who drinks but refuses to get drunk. They’re usually afraid of something deep down inside, either that they’re a coward or a fool or mean and violent. You can’t trust a man who’s afraid of himself. But sometimes, son, you can trust a man who occasionally kneels before a toilet. The chances are that he is learning something about humility and his natural human foolishness, about how to survive himself. It’s damned hard for a man to take himself too seriously when he’s heaving his guts into a dirty toilet bowl.”
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