"Say what you will about him Ed Koch is still the best show in town."

-- Pete Hamill

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“A tiny remnant of a big thing is better than a whole little thing.”
“There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.”
“Income seldom exceeds personal development.”
“Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”
“We create the government that screws you, and then you're supposed to thank us for protecting you from it.”
“there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.”
“From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.”

Source : William Barrett (1978). “The illusion of technique: a search for meaning in a technological civilization”, Anchor Books
“My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest.”

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