Words Worth Noting - June 3, 2023

“I once went to an International Labour Organization meeting in Geneva, and by the end of it I was ready to jump into Lake Geneva. It was so g***ed slow. It took them two days to welcome the chairman.”

Jack Munro and Jane O’Hara Union Jack

Words Worth Noting - May 31, 2023

“Why would a journal [The Lancet] committed to scientific rigor & medical ethics totally ignore the good reasons people have for stigmatizing untreated mental illness?/ Find out at my Substack!”

Tweet from Michael Shellenberger October 11, 2022 [https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1579914325405622272] pointing to his piece “Dark Side of Destigmatization/ No human being should be stigmatized. But untreated mental illness and addiction are dangerous and destructive, and should be.”

Words Worth Noting - May 30, 2023

“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”

Widely available online attributed to J.R.R. Tolkien, which is partly true, but more properly it is the character Sador to Túrin in The Children of Húrin acccording to this commendably persnickety website: https://thetolkienist.com/2014/10/10/thanks-babble-get-10-tolkien-quotes-wrong/