Sarah

“Certainly, some reading material merits a quick read, but habitual skimming is for the mind what a steady diet of fast food is for the body.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

“Though it runs to billions of dollars a year, the cost of forcing healthy adults to wear disposable surgical masks will be relatively minor for wealthy countries. And cloth masks are easy to clean in places that have access to clean water. In poor countries the calculus is different. Making people wear cloth masks that cannot be easily cleaned or spend a significant part of their income on disposable ones is much harder to justify if masks don’t work.”
― Alex Berenson, Unreported Truths About Covid-19 and Lockdowns: Part 3: Masks

“If you developed diphtheria, spotted fever, or the plague while you were in possession of a library book, you were required to inform the library, and the book had to be fumigated before it was put back in circulation, but the library covered the cost. Three”
― Susan Orlean, The Library Book

“Walmart has more annual revenue than Spain and more than twice as much as Russia.”
― Rod Dreher, Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents