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last updated: November 28, 2023

Anyone who isn't confused doesn't understand what's going on.
-- Dimitri Simes

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Many of them had a better time than they ever had in their lives because they were discovering the new freedom - the less you need, the freer you become.
-- E. F. Schumacher

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Things that don't get better, get worse.
-- Ellen Stern

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1988). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam

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In the end, what affects your life most deeply are things too simple to talk about.
-- Nell Blaine

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Who lives content with little possesses everything.
-- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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“Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish; therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.”

Source : Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.74, Jazzybee Verlag
“Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history?”
“the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.”
“A fighter has to know fear.”
“The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.”
“Health education emphasizing risks is a form of pedagogy, which, like other forms, serves to legitimize ideologies and social practices. Risk discourse in the public health sphere allows the state, as the owner of knowledge, to exert power of the bodies of its citizens. Risk discourse, therefore, especially when it emphasizes lifestyle risks, serves as an effective Foucauldian agent of surveillance and control that is difficult to challenge because of its manifest benevolent goal of maintaining standards of health. In doing so, it draws attention away from the structural causes of ill-health.”
“...sometimes we ask ourselves why happiness took so long to arrive, why it didn't come sooner, but appears suddenly, as now, when we've given up hope of it ever arriving, it's likely then that we won't know what to do, and rather than it being a question of choosing between laughter and tears, we will be filled by a secret anxiety to which we might not know how to respond at all.”
“The only thing that's important is the legend created by the picture, and not whether it continues to exist itself.”
“People in the eastern regions [of Ukaraine] are talking about federalisation, and Kiev has at long last started talking about de-centralisation. Order in the country can only be restored through dialogue and democratic procedures, rather than with the use of armed force, tanks and aircraft.”