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Amusing Ourselves To Death Quotes

Quotes tagged as "amusing-ourselves-to-death" Showing 1-3 of 3
Henry David Thoreau
“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate... We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad flapping American ear will be that Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Barbara Deming
“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive”
Barbara Deming

Shannon Hale
“Falling in love and falling to your death feel about the same, I thought. And I almost laughed.”
Shannon Hale, Dangerous