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Gerontissa * always tells us, ‘Stomen kalo, stomen meta fovou’—‘Let us stand well, let us stand with fear’—meaning, we should be careful while we’re young not to keep bad habits because they’ll come back to us when we’re older.”
“It is the sense of mystery that, in my opinion, drives the true scientist; the same force, blindly seeing, deafly hearing, unconsciously remembering, that drives the larva into the butterfly. If he has not experienced, at least a few times in his life, this cold shudder down his spine, this confrontation with an immense, invisible face whose breath moves him to tears, he is not a scientist. The blacker the night, the brighter the light.”
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“I don't know why, because it's one of those things I'm not contractually obligated to care about.”
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“Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.”
― 300 Arguments: Essays
― 300 Arguments: Essays
“Only a fire can teach you what survives a fire. No, it teaches you what can survive that fire.”
― 300 Arguments: Essays
― 300 Arguments: Essays
“Moving is a well-established tradition in America, and _moving up_ constitutes a significant part of the American dream. Not only is working one's way to a bigger house central to our ethos but it makes sense functionally as families bring more children into the world. But why must the move to a larger or more luxurious house bring with it the abandonment of one's neighbors, community groups, and often even schoolmates? The suburban pod system causes people to move not just from house to house but form community to community. Only in a traditionally organized neighborhood of varied incomes can a family significantly alter its housing without going very far. In the new suburbs, you can't move up without moving out. (The same is true of moving down. Seniors seeking a smaller house are often forced to abandon their familiar community and start over someplace else.)”
― Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
― Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
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