Citations & Paraphrases – Polojko's Blog!

Footnote

I was a footnote trying to masquerade as a paragraph.

– Joan Westenberg, Medium article

Priority

Please, someone give me a priority seat to another planet.

– mariecappart on Threads

Fury

The last book you read that made you furious?

– I no longer reach fury. I stop reading at mildly irritating.

– Rabih Alameddine

Preparation

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

– William Butler Yeats

Happiness

I am responsible for my own happiness, and I owe it to myself.

– Anthony Hopkins

WEIRD

WEIRD – Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic.

– Christine Web – The Arrogant Ape

Job

… but we have got to understand that our happiness isn’t someone else’s job.

– Attila Vágó, Medium article

Cry

Never cry for something that can’t cry for you.

– Vittorio De Sica

Poverty

Herbert Simon, the Nobel Prize–winning economist and cognitive scientist, put it neatly decades ago: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

If no one can persuade anybody about right and wrong, then there are only two ways to settle our differences: coercion or manipulation. Each of us comes to regard other members of society as simply means to our ends, who can be coerced into believing what we believe.

– David Brooks

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