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last updated: November 28, 2023

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.
-- Lizette Woodworth Reese

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian village: reminiscences of other days”

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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
-- Naomi Wolf

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“At times some people use force or fraud to take from others without willful, voluntary consent. Normally, the initiation of force to take life is murder, to take liberty is slavery, and to take property is theft. It is the same whether these actions are done by one person acting alone, by the many acting against a few, or even by officials with fine hats and titles.”
“Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet.”
“Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.51, New Society Publishers
“I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone - and this is my biggest satisfaction.”

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“Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.”
“Words don't change their shape, they change their meaning, their function...They don't have a meaning of their own any more, they refer to other words that you don't know, that you've never read or heard...you've never seen their shape, but you feel...you suspect...they correspond to...an empty space inside you...or in the universe...”
“Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.”
“I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour.”
“The reality we live in is selected by our conceptual definitions. You and I may be in the same physical space, but each of us will see it as entirely different.”
“She was obviously useful at the UN because she had a public persona before she ever got there. She was well known. She was a spokeswoman for many important things. When she got there, what she said was paid attention to, undoubtedly much more than would have been if just Joe Blow had been made our representative to the United Nations. In that sense, I think it was useful to have her there.”