"My inner chemistry had been hijacked by a mad scientist, who poured the fizzy, volatile contents of my heart from a testÂ tube markedÂ SOBER REALITYÂ into another labeledÂ SUNNY DELUSION, and back again, faster and faster, until the floor of my life was slick with spillage."

-- Jonathan Lethem

#Heart Quotes #Reality Quotes #Mad Quotes

“As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.”
“Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand”
“Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.”
“[Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.”
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”

Source : Mary Lou Retton (2000). “Mary Lou Retton's Gateways to Happiness: 7 Ways to a More Peaceful, More Prosperous, More Satisfying Life”, Broadway
“It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.”
“We agree with the statement contained in the encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, written by Pope Leo XIII, that "anything which dominates the life of the community should be owned by the community." That is the basis upon which we believe there should be government ownership of monopolistic enterprises.”
“Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.”

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