Kalviniskola Quotes & Sayings

But this book is about something else: what goes on in the lives of real people when the industrial economy goes south. It's about reacting to bad circumstances in the worst way possible. It's about a culture that increasingly encourages social decay instead of counteracting it. The problems that I saw at the tile warehouse run far deeper than macroeconomic trends and policy. too many young men immune to hard work. Good jobs impossible to fill for any length of time. And a young man [one of Vance's co-workers] with every reason to work - a wife-to-be to support and a baby on the way - carelessly tossing aside a good job with excellent health insurance. More troublingly, when it was all over, he thought something had been done to him. There is a lack of agency here - a feeling that you have little control over your life and a willingness to blame everyone but yourself. This is distinct from the larger economic landscape of modern America. — J.D. Vance

You've already got a natural glow, kind of of, cuz you're drunk, so just make it like way more intense, everybody loves someone who's so red in the face. Are you embarrassed? No, I'm just excited to be here. I'm normal, I swear. Do you want my phone number? — Jenna Marbles

Each love dopes you in its own way. Never assume that each ecstasy will be the same! — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life. — Bob Marley

Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think. — Nancy Fox

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the murder of the original, and thus to a pure non-meaning. — Jean Baudrillard

Even with the best intentions, you can have a nuclear war, a nuclear holocaust, through miscalculation, through accidents. — Mohamed ElBaradei

Never close the doors of opportunity to climb through the windows of peril. — Dennis Adonis