David Roop

Virginia divorce lawyer. Football fan. Avid reader. Former Chess Player.

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@JimGaffigan God Bless you, Jim. I read Why Nations Fail: when extractive (non-inclusive) economic conditions combine with extractive political conditions. Think of an oligarchy and its inequality. You are hearing from wannabe oligarchs in money and family values. They genuinely don’t know.

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@SarahKSilverman Probably a peek into your future. All of that could happen.

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@SarahKSilverman Perfect quotidian switch from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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We become what we pretend to be.

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So we should tell our kids to do what they love, or the gap between their "real" selves and pretend selves is too great, and too damaging.

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What happens in the middle, often for 10-12 hours a day, happens in a costume, and is veiled in custom and habit, collective pretending.

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We are all pretending, all of the time, to some extent. I'm aware of it every time I put on a tie, and every time I take it off.

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If you have to choose between the approaches of two relatively equal physicians, always choose that of the better person.

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It is not strength, but the duration of great sentiments that makes great men.” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

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remember how good it once was here, when we were all together, united by a good and a kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

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A poorly-defined boundary between self and other, though a recipe for pain, may be the sine qua non of unconditional love.

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Control is an illusion. The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu once noted that the best way to control anything is to take advantage of its nature.

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Pure, unprocessed foods include: steak, chicken, fruits, vegetables, raw nuts, butter, eggs, coconut oils, rice breads.

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The key to diet is not counting calories but eating pure, unprocessed foods that don't trigger needless insulin or liver responses.

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Unexpected foods to avoid to get off the insulin and excess-blood-sugar rollercoaster: orange juice,whole wheat bread,artificial sweeteners.

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The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

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The best day is a near-perfect balance of attachment and detachment, and then the client brings four bottles of red wine to your house.

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. Hemingway

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"Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life."

Arliss, George