"I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good."

-- Raymond C. Hoiles

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“Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and then we will think about it.”
“Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.”
“We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is a fundamental sin, and admits of no arguments or nice distinctions. If only we do not allow our heart to grow callous, it protests against cruelty, is always clearly heard; and yet we go on perpetrating cruelties easily, merrily, all of us - in fact, anyone who does not join in is dubbed a crank.”
“If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.”

Source : Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.627
“A lie stands on one leg, truth on two.”
“You are so much more than you are in this moment; you never know how great you can be. Don't give up on you, I didn't give up on me.”

Source : Song: Angels & Airwaves, Album: Dirty Gold, 2013
“Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.”
“If I want to free myself from endless cycles of struggling with temptation, I need to keep rediscovering that the pain of the struggle is greater than the pain of the desire. If I develop the habit of restraining myself, I'll enjoy the relief of feeling the desires pass, and I'll remember that desires are not the problem. Feeling pushed around by them is. I'll continue to have desires, of course, because I'm alive, but they'll be more modest in their demands.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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