"Steve Yarbrough's Safe from the Neighbors will take your breath away. Ambitious, funny, sad, smart, and beautifully crafted, it's everything a novel should be."

-- Richard Russo

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“Footballers are no different from human beings.”
“Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.”
“Its so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.”

Source : Interview with Shawn Adler, www.ign.com. July 27, 2006.
“Some [intentional communities], like the Shakers and the Harmony Society, have endured for a century or even longer. The Hutterians, to cite an extreme example, are today still strongly committed to communal living after practicing it, punctuated only by occasional lapses into private enterprise, for 450 years. The Hutterian rate of membership turnover has been only about 0.0006 per year.”
“There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports”
“Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, letâ€™s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people.”
“Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.”
“If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.”

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