The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of Our Bodies and Brains
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Because pleasure and happiness, for all their apparent similarity, are separate phenomena, and in their extreme function as opposites.
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.”
― The Realm of Possibility
― The Realm of Possibility
“Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right.
-Albus Dumbledore”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
-Albus Dumbledore”
― Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
“But I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone, or that's an evil one, because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.”
― The Amber Spyglass
― The Amber Spyglass
“she’s come to understand that clothes are armor”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
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