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SDNY investigators address Jeffrey Epstein victims

On the eve of Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrest,SDNY addressed victims directly: "There never was, nor shall there be an excuse for the criminal behavior you were subjected to. We know that your quest for justice has been met with great disappointment and that reliving these events is traumatic. I would like to thank you for the trust you placed in our investigative teams as we work to hold the adult perpetrators accountable. For the many victims of other adult perpetrators who may be listening or get word of today’s announcement: the example set by the women involved in this investigation has been a powerful one. They persevered against the rich and the connected and they did so without a badge, a gun, or a subpoena; and they stood together. I have no doubt the bravery exhibited by the women in this investigation has empowered others to speak up about the crimes that they have been subjected to."

Ghislaine Maxwell in Handcuffs – BROKEN: Seeking Justice (pca.st)

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hedonism

So what do you think? Is life about being happy, about something else, or a mix?

"The question of the purpose of human life has been posed innumerable times; it has not yet received a satisfactory answer and perhaps does not admit of one. (…) We will therefore turn now to the more modest question of what human beings themselves reveal, through their behaviour, about the aim and purpose of their lives, what they demand of life and wish to achieve in it. The answer can scarcely be in doubt: they strive for happiness, they want to become happy and remain so."

Sigmund Freud

“There is only one inborn error, and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy… So long as we persist in this inborn error… the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in things great and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence… hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of what is called disappointment.”
Arthur Schopenhauer

https://youtu.be/wIXtN2S2d2w

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buildings are beings

"Buildings are beings. When they are architecture, they teach as well as protect; they exemplify; they tell us who we were and who we want to be; they deserve respect, invite investment, and reward affection."

Architecture Beyond Experience by Michael Benedikt

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man is wolf to man

“Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they are, on the contrary, creatures among whose instinctual endowments is to be reckoned a powerful share of aggressiveness. As a result, their neighbor is for them not only a potential helper or sexual object, but also someone who tempts them to satisfy their aggressiveness on him, to exploit his capacity for work without compensation, to use him sexually without his consent, to seize his possessions, to humiliate him, to cause him pain, to torture and to kill him. Homo homini lupus [man is wolf to man]. Who, in the face of all his experience of life and of history, will have the courage to dispute this assertion?”

― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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best years of your life

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother. the ecology. or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
~Albert Ellis | psychologist who developed REBT in 1962