no. 491

“We are still so far from considering illness as anything beyond a private misfortune against which each individual and each family should protect itself, as best it may, that Germany’s heroic method of attacking it as a national evil through government machinery seems to us to belong almost to another planet.” 

- Henry Seager (1917)

No. 490

“The other problem you’re facing,” Von explained gently, “is that these people walk around thinking they already know everything about everything. If you look at improving policies to help the masses, they call you a socialist. If you talk about not killing and not going to war for the sake of it, they say that you’re unrealistic. They take no time to consider what you’re actually talking about because they bring all their filters and pre-formed ideas to the table.” She shook her head, her eyes showing how hard this had been for all the years she’d been trying to make a difference with her work. “It just makes them unwilling -and in a lot of cases unable -to even hear what you’re suggesting. They just filter it out and decide what you mean based on their sound bites and prejudices.”

From "Cloaked: Age of Expansion" by Ell Leigh Clarke and Michael Anderle

no. 489

"Almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. Only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement." 

From the movie  "Joe Versus The Volcano"

no. 488

"Don't hiss at me like a raptor, I'm your mom."

My wife, to my 16-year old daughter; not words I ever expected to hear.