"Oregonians aren't the only ones who recognize the extraordinary service and sacrifice of their state's National Guard."

-- Ron Wyden

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“Unsolved problems on the inside of a person stop success more often than problems on the outside of a person.”
“The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not only the artist's eye and hand perform this dance, so does the eye of the beholder.”
“Variety is the soul of pleasure.”

Source : The Rover pt. 2, act 1 (1681) See Cowper 7
“Well, since I produce and pay for my own albums, it is the ultimate freedom.”
“Seasteads cost money, and if you want to succeed as a Seastead you have to find ways to attract people to move there. If I was a billionaire I wouldn't want to move to a seastead, but if I was a member of the bottom billion, most of whom want to leave their dysfunctional governments, I might want to move to a seastead.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“Observermanship is the art of giving the impression that you are with it even though you don't know Latin very well.”

Source : Robert McAfee Brown (1964). “Observer in Rome”
“The minute you had kids you closed ranks. You didn't plan this in advance, but it happened. Families were like individual, discrete, moated island nations. The little group of citizens on the slab of rock gathered together instinctively, almost defensively, and everyone who was outside the wallsâ€”even if you'd once been best friendsâ€”was now just that, outsiders.”
“I tremble because of the sufferings of those persecuted in different lands. I tremble thinking about the eternal destiny of their torturers. I tremble for Western Christians who don't help their persecuted brethren. In the depth of my heart, I would like to keep the beauty of my own vineyard and not be involved in such a huge fight. I would like so much to be somewhere in quietness and rest. But it is not possible... The quietness and rest for which I long would be an escape from reality and dangerous for my soul... The West sleeps and must be awakened to see the plight of the captive nations.”

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