John William Hager

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. — Albert Einstein”
― Foster Provost, Data Science for Business: What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking

“Somatic symptoms for which no clear physical basis can be found are ubiquitous in traumatized children and adults. They can include chronic back and neck pain, fibromyalgia, migraines, digestive problems, spastic colon/irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, and some forms of asthma.16 Traumatized children have fifty times the rate of asthma as their nontraumatized peers.17 Studies have shown that many children and adults with fatal asthma attacks were not aware of having breathing problems before the attacks.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

“Be wary of paramilitaries. When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Grief is an ocean, and guilt the undertow that pulls me beneath the waves and drowns me.”
― Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants