"Legalized drugs would cause dislocations in the US economy - the prison industry for example and tens of billions spent annually on drug enforcement. But because the US economy is so large, this would be a minor blow, hardly as severe as the ultimate nightmare for the US economy, global peace, which would shutter its death industry commonly called the military/industrial complex."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Charles Bowden

#Military Quotes #Blow Quotes #Drug Quotes

“We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.”

Source : Jonathan Evison (2012). “West of Here”, p.465, Algonquin Books
“Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.”
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?”
“When you can wake up in the morning and feel successful whether some end goal is realized or not...THAT is true success.”
“From any vocabulary of ideas we can build other ideas by formal combinations of signs. But not any set of ideas will be instructive. One must have the right ideas.”

Source : Ian Hacking (2006). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.139, Cambridge University Press
“Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin
“A man in Florida has been arrested for wearing a President Obama mask while robbing a McDonald's. To show you how good this guy's disguise was, instead of a holdup note he was reading from a teleprompter.”
“The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.”

Source : Twitter post from Jul 27, 2012

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