"When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold onto your wallets."

-- Charles Schumer

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“Everything is unfolding based on causes and conditions. Our happiness or suffering is dependent on how we relate to the present moment. If we cling now, we suffer later. If we let go and respond with compassion or friendliness, we create happiness and well-being for the future.”
“I used to teach on a college level, and I've taught in schools where kids just wanted to be artists, and I used to be furious with them if they didn't read, because they just seemed so - their education seemed so thin if all they could do was pick up a paint-loaded brush and fling it at a canvas. I mean, there was nothing to express there, except maybe their own personal feelings. But if they're not - if they don't have a grounding in the way these things have been expressed by other people down through the centuries, then they're lost.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.
“The reason 'closure' is a cliche is that it is used too often, too imprecisely, and doesn't in any case reflect reality. In reality, such closure in broken friendships and much else in life is rarely achieved; only death brings closure and then not always for those still living.”
“Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings.”

Source : "Worship Through Giving, Part 2" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.
“An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.”

Source : Alberto Moravia (2011). “Contempt”, p.75, New York Review of Books
“We're just helping out the Christians by bringing about the apocalypse. They can all go to heaven”
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
“The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.”

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