Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.
John d. MacDonald
Quotes
#134 – Graeber on Work
I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone…
David Graeber
#133 – Kovic on War
No government will ever teach me to hate another human being.
Ron Kovic
#131 – Cicero on BOOKS
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
Cicero, M. T.
#130 Hock on Communication
Much of that which passes for conversation these days is the lobbing of small bombs of dogma and little clots of banality at one another.
Dee Hock
#129 Vonnegut on Education
You might just learn something when you’re in a mood to learn something. The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren’t and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why.
Kurt Vonnegut
#127 Cummings on Authenticity
I had to find the courage to start saying no to things I didn’t want to do because once you turn thirty, pretending starts taking a toll on your immune system.
Whitney Cummings
#125 – Rose on Government
When enough people understand reality, tyrants can literally be ignored out of existence.
Larken Rose
#124 – Yang on Work
The challenge we must overcome is that humans need work more than work needs us.
Andrew Yang
#123 – Lessing on School
What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors.
Doris Lessing
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