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Melanie said:
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I think I'm going to have to come back to this one, because someone recommended it to me, but it's probably too soon.
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“The enemy of our souls wants us to be isolated and alone. He knows that when we're isolated, we're easy prey. Why? When we're alone and vulnerable, we feel afraid. When we're together and vulnerable, we become brave. A brave group of vulnerable people acting together in faith is not easily overcome by anxiety and stress.”
― Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
― Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose
“Lippmann, for example, wrote in 1920: “There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“All those years of remembering, carrying, and suffering over this person, and he probably hadn't thought about me at all since I'd moved away. I was willing to bet all my tormentors were also suffering from this kind of amnesia-- they didn't think about, care about, or remember what they'd done to me. The axe forgets; the tree remembers.”
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
― ¡Hola Papi!: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons
“Don’t tell me Kinshasa, the poorest city in the poorest country in the world, a place where the average per capita income is one goat bell, two bootleg Michael Jackson cassette tapes, and three sips of potable water per year, thinks we’re too poor to associate with.”
― The Sellout
― The Sellout
“What I suggest here as a solution is what Aldous Huxley suggested, as well. And I can do no better than he. He believed with H. G. Wells that we are in a race between education and disaster, and he wrote continuously about the necessity of our understanding the politics and epistemology of media. For in the end, he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Melanie’s 2025 Year in Books
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