“That's a large part of what economics is--people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful.”
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“Missing him. Longing for him. Worrying about him. Those were her nighttime journeys.”
“I just wish he thought about me as much as I do him”
“How about we call it lovingly fucking your brains out?”
“For a child, no hand is stronger and softer than the hand which touches her lovingly!”
“The beauty of blue water touches my heart and lovingly invites me to swim with her.”