"The decline is in paper values, not in tangible goods and services...America is now in the eighth year of prosperity as commercially defined. The former great periods of prosperity in America averaged eleven years. On this basis we now have three more years to go before the tailspin."

-- Stuart Chase

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“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.”
“The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.257, Simon and Schuster
“The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1822). “Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears: The Triumphs Over Death; and An Epistle of Comfort”, p.144
“Women's rights, men's rights-human rights-all are threatened by the everpresent specter of war so destructive now of human material and moral values as to render victory indistinguishable from defeat.”
“Since the 1920s, virtually all continuing medical and public health education is funded by pharmaceutical companies. In fact, today, the FDA can't even tell health scientists the truth about vaccine contaminants and their likely effects. The agency is bound and gagged by proprietary laws and non-disclosure agreements forced upon them by the pharmaceutical industry. Let us not forget that the pharmaceutical industry, as a special interest group, is the number one contributor to politicians on Capital Hill.”
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”

Source : "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.
“Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.”
“I try to use pain as fuel for my work.”

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