"Parental anxieties: A timeline. Pre-1800s: Potato famine, death of entire villages. 1900s: Trying to keep dad's job through depression so entire family does not starve or have to sell off children to agribusiness. 2000: Infringement of Parenthood on sense of Personhood."

-- Sandra Tsing Loh

#Jobs Quotes #Children Quotes #Dad Quotes

“We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity.”
“The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.”
“This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you.”

Source : "Selected Essays by Ahad Ha'am". Book by Ahad Ha'am, 2005.
“No one dances sober, unless he is insane.”
“There is no photograph more inherently photographic than another.”
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.”
“Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“It's a purging of sorts. Like, when you're all done doing your laundry and it's fresh and bright, but washing the clothes, you wouldn't want to get in while it's spinning around.”

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