"But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness. At certain moments, it is reason enough to live."

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Source : Steve Almond (2007). “(Not that You Asked): Rants, Exploits, and Obsessions”, p.33, Random House

Steve Almond

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“Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.”

Source : "Noble obliges". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2006.
“If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished or extinguished. Without the soaring birds, the great forests, the sounds and coloration of the insects, the free-flowing streams, the flowering fields, the sight of clouds by day and the stars at night, we become impoverished in all that makes us human.”

Source : Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.200, Crown
“The world of nominal, cultural Christianity that took the American dream and added Jesus to it in order to say, 'you can have everything you ever wanted and Heaven too,' is soon to be gone. Good riddance.”
“A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.”

Source : George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.332, Regnery Publishing
“Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.”
“If you ask ... the man in the street ... the human significance of mathematics, the answer of the world will be, that mathematics has given mankind a metrical and computatory art essential to the effective conduct of daily life, that mathematics admits of countless applications in engineering and the natural sciences, and finally that mathematics is a most excellent instrumentality for giving mental discipline... [A mathematician will add] that mathematics is the exact science, the science of exact thought or of rigorous thinking.”
“The corporatist-economic model of society appears to be governing us. Economists, often in the pay of transnationals, are deciding, for us, what democracy is, and will be.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
“Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes.”

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