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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

   The real “haves” are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities.
   On the other hand, the real “have nots” are those who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 115 (1955)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/24752/

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Lisa J. Warner / Lisa Luv

🐻🐻🐻*This poor old bear stayed for a couple of hours in the same spot in our backyard because there is something really wrong with his back hip and right hind leg.*& When he finally did leave up the path to the woods he struggled with walking big time the poor thing.🥹🥺🐻🐻🐻😥

#Poor#Old#Bear
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Markus Werle

"But that's a whole other question. Well I mean the uncaring things they do in #Britain. The new #Labor government, you know the first thing they did? They cut off #heating support for #poor elderly. That's the first thing they did. That's a tremendous act of non-caring. You have to be totally emotionally shut down to be able to do that to people."

Gabor Maté

Lorry

This is interesting to me, at least. It looks like they trialled this in poorer areas of the country, so mostly I see Lancashire in the article, but also Plymouth; possibly places where kids wouldn't be expected to have access to books at home?

I went to school at a very early age, to a day-boarding school. They taught ITA and normal English together, I think, at least, I could read normal English, but I thought in ITA and still do.

If you ask me to spell something, I spell it in my head in the phonetic alphabet (ah, bu, ker, der, eh, pff, ger) and I have a mostly instinctive translation mechanism that translates it to normal English style before I speak it; except when I have to actually think about the spelling, and split my brain, then it comes out phonetically, I have to experiment with the spelling in phonetics before I can convert - I just can't think in normal English.

I am not sure it messed me up much. I have learned to spell, but some words don't make sense to me (which is just English), and some I am stubborn about.

I also collect ITA books now, the first one I got after 50 years or so, I realised I could read perfectly. I'd never thought about what happened to ITA, maybe I was lucky that I used both and wasn't suddenly hit with a whole new reading language; but I do wonder where it went, and when I stopped using it.

theguardian.com/education/2025

#English#Writing#Education
OccuWorld

Rick Scott Demands More Cuts to Medicaid, Which His Company Allegedly Scammed

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s famous for his former hospital company’s record-setting Medicare fraud settlements, is currently leading an effort to make Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even more painful for America’s poor...

#RickScott#PunchDown#Poor
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