"The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!' It's just the law of demand: raise the price of crossing us, and fewer people will cross us. Make the price another Hiroshima, and perhaps the quantity demanded will fall to zero."

-- Bryan Caplan

#Zero Quotes #Fall Quotes #Law Quotes

“To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light.”
“The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you.”
“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.”
“Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!”

Source : Marion D. Hanks (1974). “The Gift of Self”, Bookcraft, Incorporated
“I have a friend who's an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don't agree with. He'll hold up a flower and say, "Look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. But then he'll say, "I, as an artist, can see how beautiful a flower is. But you, as a scientist, take it all apart and it becomes dull." I think he's kind of nutty. [...] There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”
“Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.”
“If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.”
“There is sadness and confusion in our hearts / And the world prepares to fight / as it tears itself apart, it isn't fair”

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