"Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself."

-- Joan Didion

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“Congress will always couple one bad idea with another, the better to 'offset' them.”
“I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is.”
“In the action of no-action (wu-wei), a cardinal aspect of the true creative process is set forth. In wu-wei, the mind is silenced and the work is allowed to express itself.”
“The linear 'Take - Make - Dispose' system, which depletes natural resources and generates waste, is deeply flawed and can be productively replaced by a restorative model in which waste does not exist as such but is only food for the next cycle”
“Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1970). “The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology”, p.2, Univ of California Press
“The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.”
“The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book,”

Source : "Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street: animal rights group calls for boycott" by Ben Child, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2013.
“But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.”

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