"I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours."

-- Monica Baldwin

#Morning Quotes #Four Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders.”
“It's not that I dislike the police, but I would never go to the police for anything. It's just that I prefer not..., not calling them.”
“Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity not only permitted but actively encouraged by our rulers. The pleasure of eating an ice cream cone may be minor compared to the pleasure of meaningful, autonomous work, but the former is easily available and the latter is not. A poor family would undoubtedly rather have a decent apartment than a new TV, but since they are unlikely to get the apartment, what is to be gained by not getting the TV?”

Source : "Women and the Myth of Consumerism". Book by Ellen Willis, Ramparts, 1969.
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
“Put on your own oxygen mask before assisting others.”
“I certainly have routines in my day-to-day life that are important to me and still give me feelings of security and control, but the capacity to break out of them every so often as I travel has given me a second wind.”
“Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.”
“Memories are so two-faced. One minute they're hugging you like a long-lost friend, the next minute they're ripping you apart like your worst enemy.”

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