"Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so- called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing. They tell us that the government can spend and spend without taxing at all; that it can continue to pile up debt without ever paying it off, because "we owe it to ourselves.""

-- Henry Hazlitt

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“I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.”
“When a man has offered in sacrifice all that he has for the truthâ€™s sake, not even withholding his life, and believing before God that he has been called to make this sacrifice because he seeks to do his will, he does know, most assuredly, that God does and will accept his sacrifice and offering, and that he has not, nor will not seek his face in vain.”
“Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.”
“Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.”
“I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.”
“When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.”
“There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.”

Source : Matt Haig (2014). “The Humans: A Novel”, p.260, Simon and Schuster
“Plant your love and let it grow.”

Source : Song: Let It Grow, Album: 461 Ocean Boulevard, 1974

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