"The more we rely on the market, the more hooked we become on its promises: Do you need a tidier closet? A nicer family picture album? Elderly parents who are truly well cared for? Children who have an edge in school, on tests, in college and beyond? If we can afford the services involved, many if not most of us are prone to say, 'Sure, why not?"

-- Arlie Russell Hochschild

#Children Quotes #School Quotes #College Quotes

“I was Jake's insurance policy. He thought maybe he wouldn't have to use me. He hoped, anyway. But down deep he knew, and I knew, and we both hid the truth from the others because Cassie couldn't let Jake make that decision, and Tobias couldn't let me, and those two, by loving us, would have screwed everything up. It was a war, after all. A war we had to win.”
“I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.”

Source : Thomas Haynes Bayly (1844). “Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems”, p.55
“For me, my music has always been like an open diary.”
“Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.”
“Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.”
“The dice of Zeus always fall luckily.”
“My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.”
“Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon”

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