"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral."

-- Ida Tarbell

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“A blue-stocking is the scourge of her husband, children, friends, servants, and every one. [Fr., Une femme bel-esprit est le fleau de son mari, de ses enfants, de ses amis, de ses valets, et tout le monde.]”
“Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.”
“A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that.”
“Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap peopleâ€™s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. When independent-thinking people (and here I do not include the corporate media) begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgment and blindly yoke their art to the service of the â€œNation,â€ itâ€™s time for all of us to sit up and worry.”
“I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.”

Source : "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.
“As far as dieting and weight loss go, diet and exercise actually works. Lots of running and healthy eating.”
“When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT. Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT. As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.”
“I brought killer intensity to my workoutsâ€¦ Itâ€™s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring something to itâ€¦ What was your intention? If you are not believing with all fervour and relentlessness in what it is you want to do, no one is going to do that for you.”

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