"Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

“We have to yet really seriously debate the constitutional issues and whether or not we're willing to give up more freedom in order to have more security.”
“Composing music is what makes me happy.”

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“A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”

Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing
“I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.”
“I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.”
“If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.”

Source : Philip Morin Freneau (1809). “Poems Written and Published During the American Revolutionary War, and Now Republished from the Original Manuscripts: Interspersed with Translations from the Ancients, and Other Pieces Not Heretofore in Print”, p.148
“So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.”
“No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.”

Source : "Mr. Dooley Discusses Party Prospects" (1901)

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