"Middle class children can be said to be 'born on the the third base but believe they've hit triple," -- from Annette Lareau "Unequal Childhoods"

From Freakonomics ( Read more... )

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‎"Nations are not communities and never have been, The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of ( Read more... )

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the secret things that make me smile
are known by few and understood by fewer
i makes a conscious effort to beguile
a stranger who becomes my sudden viewer

i dines with charm and sleeps with slyness
in layers wrap i every kindness
sheer moments of being envelop completely
that's right! B-)

you better watch out
some do get addicted >:)

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