"Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes."

-- Stephen L. Richards

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“A social group can, indeed must, already exercise 'leadership' before winning governmental power (this is indeed one of the principal conditions for the winning of such power); it subsequently becomes dominant when it exercises power, but even if it holds it firmly in its grasp, it must continue to 'lead' as well.”
“Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.”

Source : Song: Heroes And Friends, 1990
“To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte's Web' as a child.”
“People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back. And given what the United States Government and Western powers have done to the third world, I feel that these countries should fight back.”
“By now, the camouflage had become my skin. My friends wouldn't want to know. Who would want to know? I certainly didn't want to know. All I wanted was to hold my assumptions to the light, and to watch them sparkle in their facets, as all sham gemstones do.”

Source : Darin Strauss (2011). “Half a Life: A Memoir”, p.101, Random House
“Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.”
“He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.”
“In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.”

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