“I’ll get up when there’s something worth getting up for.”
“Fascist politics includes many distinct strategies: the mythic past, propaganda, anti-intellectualism, unreality, hierarchy, victimhood, law and order, sexual anxiety, appeals to the heartland, and a dismantling of public welfare and unity.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“if you can’t find the humor in everything around you, then eventually you find out too late that the joke is on you.”
― The Choose Yourself Stories
― The Choose Yourself Stories
“It is easier to act yourself into a better way of feeling than to feel yourself into a better way of action. —O. H. Mowrer”
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
― Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
“If you accept mediocrity in any form for long enough, you become mediocre. Period.”
― Pocket Man: The Unauthorized Autobiography of a Passionate, Personal Promoter
― Pocket Man: The Unauthorized Autobiography of a Passionate, Personal Promoter
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