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J Maarten Troost Quotes

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings Picture Quote #1

It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press Picture Quote #1

We don’t think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events Picture Quote #1

Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. ‘How do you expect to get ahead?,’ people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away Picture Quote #1

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise Picture Quote #1

Like many highly educated people, I didn’t have much in the way of actual skills Picture Quote #1

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Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings (J Maarten Troost Quotes) It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will likely reply that he was a general in the Civil War, which occurred in 1492, when Americans dumped tea into the Gulf of Tonkin, sparking the First World War, which ended with the invasion of Grenada and the development of the cotton press (J Maarten Troost Quotes) We don’t think much about climate change and rising sea levels here in the U.S. Beyond a few gardeners, birders and hikers who notice the changes in our own ecosystem, we live on, blissfully unaware of our changing Earth. Our storms - Katrina, Sandy - are dismissed as once-in-a-century events. (J Maarten Troost Quotes) Escapism, we are led to believe, is evidence of a deficiency in character, a certain failure of temperament, and like so many -isms, it is to be strenuously avoided. ‘How do you expect to get ahead?,’ people ask. But the question altogether misses the point. The escapist doesn’t want to get ahead. He simply wants to get away. (J Maarten Troost Quotes) Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise (J Maarten Troost Quotes) Like many highly educated people, I didn’t have much in the way of actual skills (J Maarten Troost Quotes)