What people do with their leisure tells us a great deal about the nature of a society, what its values really are, for example, as opposed to what its members say its values are. (Jack McDevitt)

What people do with their leisure tells us a great deal about the nature of a society, what its values really are, for example, as opposed to what its members say its values are.

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