How To Be Free

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How To Be Free
Tom Hodgkinson 


  • Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.
  • We have become so obsessed by numbers and by bottom lines that beauty and truth has been knocked aside.
  • We bore ourselves in order to earn money that we'll later spend on trying to de-bore ourselves 
  • It's easier to robe the poor.
  • It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up. 
  • It seems no body's business to try to better things
  • When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else. 
  • Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society 
  • It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .
  • Pain will never leave us. instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.
  • Being safe is fiction. 

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