“Many men in their forties have low testosterone. They are told it is normal by the doctors. Left untreated, it may take them into poor health and possibly disease.”
“Levine said. "And that was so much more cynical than how I would have described farming. You're just like, well, I'm in the Ponzi business and it's pretty good."
Bankman-Fried said that was a reasonable response. "I think there's like a sort of depressing amount of validity...”
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“The right to education should be protected, preserved and cultivated. The efforts to better the system are good. but they are not enough. We need to work together to change access and to also change how we are taught”
“If we are intentional and serious about eradicating poverty at all levels, from personal to global, then we must stop all the propaganda and gimmicks and mean what we say and do what we mean. If mankind was able to go to the moon, then they should not fail to completely eradicate poverty on the planet Earth.”
“Everyone knows how to get a squat: you go along to an empty house at night, break in, change the locks and it’s yours. [...] Later we’ll have someone to jam the electricity meter with a pin so we have free electricity. Everyone does that.”
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“If a person were to ask me what I saw South, I should tell him stink weed, sand, rattlesnakes, and alligators. To tell the honest truth, our boys out on picket look sharper for snakes than they do for rebels.”
Source: On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front
“As the Grateful Dead said, and writers' can attest to: Sometimes the light is shining on me, other times I can barely see; but lately, its occurred to me-What A Long Strange Trip Its Been.”
Source: Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip
“During the nine months I carried Cerian, God came close to me again unexpectedly, wild and beautiful, good and gracious. I touched his presence as I carried Cerian and as a result I realized that underneath all my other longings lay an aching desire for God himself and for his love. Cerian shamed my strength, and in her weakness and vulnerability, she showed me a way of intimacy. The beauty and completeness of her personhood nullified the value system to which I had subscribed for so long.”
Source: Perfectly Human: Nine Months with Cerian
“Poor kids, through no fault of their own, are less prepared by their families, their schools, and their communities to develop their God-given talents as fully as rich kids. For economic productivity and growth, our country needs as much talent as we can find, and we certainly can’t afford to waste it. The opportunity gap imposes on all of us both real costs and what economists term “opportunity costs.”
Source: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
“Upper-class parents enable their kids to form weak ties by exposing them more often to organized activities, professionals, and other adults. Working-class children, on the other hand, are more likely to interact regularly only with kin and neighborhood children, which limits their formation of valuable weak ties.”
Source: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis