"My book group has one rule: no books for adults. We read young adult fiction only."

-- Lev Grossman

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“My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.”
“When health workers are infected at work, this puts other healthcare workers at risk, but also can be a risk to all other patients, understanding where the breach in these measures is occurring and taking the steps needed to fully implement infection prevention and control measures can put an end to these ... infections.”
“Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.”
“Weâ€™re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people havenâ€™t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something thatâ€™s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. Itâ€™s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. Youâ€™re on it, and you canâ€™t get off.”
“I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.”
“With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barbers take a costly care.”
“Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.”
“The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.”

Source : Herbert Marcuse (2013). “One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society”, p.10, Routledge

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