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What “a boy reads [in newspapers] in his teens will be seen before he is twenty to have been false in emphasis and interpretation, if not in fact as well, and most of it will have lost all importance. Most of what he remembers he will therefore have to unlearn; and he will probably have acquired an incurable taste for vulgarity and sensationalism and the fatal habit of fluttering from paragraph to paragraph.”

Chapter 6: I would highly recommend You Who? By Rachel Jankovic as an robust Christian answer to Chapter 6. Christians see many of the same problems with philosophy but materialism creates an ethical free-for-all.

Rhetoric is over the top. Always talking about the corporate thugs and the pure common people. I prefer my economic and social structures to take a skeptical view of the rich, middle class and poor alike.

“Imagination is a good servant and a bad master.”

So many hilarious bits so far, but this one is pretty fabulous in a different way. Happy 16th Anniversary to the guy who always make me laugh!

“You make a joke of everything.”
“And you laugh at it. And if there’s a better recipe than that for a living happily ever after, name it. Don’t you see that that’s just why belong to each other. Because we can laugh together.” Chapter 21

“Don’t just follow your heart; your heart will betray you.”

“A general suspicion of mankind and a definite and particular suspicion of one individual made a bad opiate. For over an hour sleep had avoided the Efficient Baxter with an unconquerable coyness. He had tried all the known ways of wooing slumber, but they had failed him, from the counting of sheep downward.”

“A general suspicion of mankind and a definite and particular suspicion of one individual made a bad opiate. For over an hour sleep had avoided the Efficient Baxter with an unconquerable coyness. He had tried all the known ways of wooing slumber, but they had failed him, from the counting of sheep downward.”

"if both your shoes are shined, your best foot will always be forward."

About the phrase "in a nutshell," "A knack for pithiness is well worth acquiring. Beginners are advised to start with the larger nuts, such as the Brazil nut and then work their way downward in size through, the pecan, the cashew, and the hazelnut. With practice, one soon discovers that even the most profound ideas can be packed neatly inside the shell of a pistachio, with room to spare."

"A misery contest is not worth entering, for only one only wins by losing."