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[122] "Being rightly named means being truly known. It changes our lives. If that's true about being named in small things, how much more is it true with respect to the things that really matter.

Which I did for many, many years. But if what this person told me were true, then I didn’t have to actually be comfortable all the time. If I could, in fact, lean to experience a quota of discomfort, it would be awesome news. And if I could consistently go to that three-hour meeting, I could also exercise, and I could write. In short, I could actually be responsible. [106]

I first started going to meetings when I was twenty-eight, but it was at this particular three-hour meeting that I heard someone say that I didn’t have to like meetings, I just had to go to them. Well this was a revelation to me! I thought I had to like everything I did. And for me to like everything I did meant – well, among other things, that I needed to take a boat load of dope. [106]

One night I had to go to a meeting – this three-hour meeting I’ve gone to every week for the last ten years. (By the way, no. I haven’t stayed sober that long, buy my failure to achieve long-term sobriety is just that – my failure – not the failure of “the program.”) [106]

p.115 "You are everything I never knew that I always wanted." from movie Fools Rush In.

[185] Under its stated standard, YouTube would’ve banned any video in January 2020 that claimed that human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 was possible, given the official WHO stance at the time. In retrospect, that was arguably the most dangerous lie about public health in modern history. [Reader Note: Example of why any type of censorship is dangerous.]

[168] Wokenomics whitewashes the abuses of dictators abroad while condemning actions of government at home.

Pg. 533:Einstein's opposition to McCarthyism arose partly out of his fear of fascism. America's most dangerous internal threat he felt, came not from communist subversives but from those who used the fear of communists to trample civil liberties. "America is incomparably less endangered by its own Communists than by the hysterical hunt for the few Communists that are here," told the socialist leadr Norman Thomas.