"The easier things are to buy, the more we consume."

-- Erik Qualman

“Anthropology has reached that point of development where the careful investigation of facts shakes our firm belief in the far-reaching theories that have been built up. The complexity of each phenomenon dawns on our minds, and makes us desirous of proceeding more cautiously. Heretofore we have seen the features common to all human thought”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.108, University of Chicago Press
“Where I live in Oklahoma, it's all ranchers. My friends are all cowboys and pretty rough guys. If I had a hot tub back there, I may as well have Richard Simmons come over and live with me.”
“The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.”

Source : The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)
“Thin ribbons of fear snake bluely through you like a system of rivers. We need a cloudburst or soothing landscape fast, to still this panic. Maybe a field of dracaena, or a vast stand of sugar pinesâ€”generous, gum-yielding treesâ€”to fill our minds with vegetable wonder and keep dread at bay.”

Source : Amy Gerstler (2000). “Medicine”, p.21, Penguin
“On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.”
“Benzedrine often helps a case run.”
“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”
“In journalism, when we want to get a story over the jumps, we refer to it as a universal experience, but it almost never is. There is one universal experience, that's death. That is something we are all going to experience at some distance in the lives of loved ones, strangers and friends, people around us and certainly our own,”

Source : "Scott Simon’s Tweets About Dying Mother Spur Conversation On Public Grief, Death On Social Media" by Jaweed Kaleem, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 9, 2013.

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