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“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
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“I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.”
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“Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.”
Source : "The Character of a Happy Life". Poem by Henry Wotton, 1614.
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“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.179, Macmillan
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“Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian.”
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“There are a lot of things that I really question - the legality of the drone strikes, these NSA revelations. Jimmy Carter came out and said we don’t live in a democracy. That’s a little intense when an ex-president says that. So you know, he’s got some explaining to do, particularly for a constitutional law professor.”
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“I felt like poisoning a monk.”
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“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.”
Source : "Brainstorm: Harnessing the Power of Productive Obsessions". Book by Eric Maisel, Ann Maisel, p. 95, 2010.