"The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people."

-- Terry Pratchett

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“What is it about us human beings that we canâ€™t let go of lost things?”
“I don't have any intention to stop. Rock 'n' roll is my main concern.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 11, 2014
“Perhaps the greatest magic of the human spirit is the ability to laugh, at ourselves, at each other, and at our sometimes hopeless situation. Laughter normalized our lives”
“Political journalists love graduate student intelligence, the ability to make clever allusions in seminars, and in 1999-2000 they hassled George W. Bush for not having it. They didn't realize what this book succinctly displays: that the President has something far more important-CEO intelligence, the ability to ask tough questions, garner essential information, and make discerning decisions.”

Source : "George Bush's forte for gifted leadership" by Marc Abrahams, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2008.
“The images evoked by words being independent of their sense, they vary from age to age and from people to people, the formulas remaining identical. Certain transitory images are attached to certain words: the word is merely as it were the button of an electric bell that calls them up.”

Source : Gustave Le Bon (1947). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.57, Lulu.com
“I was taught very early on how you treat people is actually what matters.”
“children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.”

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