"True wisdom is to see and understand your relationship with the universe. When you gain that relational knowledge, then you are wise."

-- Frederick Lenz

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“Horror fiction seems to spawn more dumbass 'rules' than any other kind of writing, and one of the dumbest is the assumed 'requirement' of a twist ending, going all the way back to H.H. Munro. This story is also the result of a long rumination on how stories are sometimes scuttled or diminished by succumbing to such 'rules'.”
“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”
“I felt I had to work even harder in order to help two sets of parents. Most of my money I send home to let my parents manage. The rest I use for living expenses in America.”
“Impotence therefore faces both those who believe in what amounts to a pure, stateless, market capitalism, a sort of international bourgeois anarchism, and those who believe in a planned socialism uncontaminated by private profit-seeking. Both are bankrupt. The future, like the present and the past, belongs to mixed economies in which public and private are braided together in one way or another. But how? That is the problem for everybody today, but especially for people on the left.”

Source : "Socialism has failed. Now capitalism is bankrupt. So what comes next?" by Eric Hobsbawm, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2009.
“Time and time again I can't please myself.”
“Fast food is both evil and genius. Because of it we can feed a large number of people fairly decently at an affordable price. However, all the artificial flavors and artificial ingredients in some of their products are unacceptable. And it's designed so you can eat fast so you get back to work more quickly. Not good.”
“The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.”

Source : James Buchanan (2000). “Mr. Buchanan's Administration: On the Eve of the Rebellion”, p.252, Digital Scanning Inc
“If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.”

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