"Working with drug addicts, alcoholics, and so-called juvenile delinquents in New York City convinced me that instead of working with individuals, more effective methods would deal with the societal conditions that create dysfunctional behaviors in the first place."

-- Jacque Fresco

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“Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.”
“We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.”
“No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.”
“will stifle economic growth, destroy jobs, reduce revenues, and increase the deficit.”
“Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.”
“After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.413
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
“We need to conceive of ourselves as "agents" impelled by self-generated intentions.”

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