"I was never a cool person; in fact, cool people have always made fun of me. Thatâ€™s why I loved [the Robert Cormier YA novel] The Chocolate War - because the cool kids (not the establishment) were the villains. I totally identified with that."

-- Simon Rich

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“If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.”
“The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st centuryâ€™s frontier.”
“At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams I confided to my father were of becoming a scholar in good earnest, and going to University. It was unheard-of several shocked governesses were only too quick to tell me, when I spoke a little too boldly -- but my father nodded and smiled and said, 'We'll see.' Since I believed my father could do anything -- except of course make me pretty -- I worked and studied with passionate dedication, lived in hope, and avoided society and mirrors.”
“Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do the stigmatizing work once done by colored-only water fountains and legally segregated schools. With dazzling candor, Alexander argues that we all pay the cost of the new Jim Crow.”
“A leader should have higher grit and tenacity, and be able to endure what the employees can't.”
“I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your insecurities, is difficult for everybody.”
“I am dying of hunger.”
“A thought-form held in thinking substance is a reality; it is a real thing, whether it has yet become visible to mortal eye or not.”

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