"Sincerity is not test of truth-no evidence of correctness of conduct. You may take poison sincerely believing it the needed medicine, but will it save your life?"

-- Tryon Edwards

#Believe Quotes #Medicine Quotes #Poison Quotes

“America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen.”
“An elegantly organized tour of the Internet, both fun and informative, a rare combination!”
“The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it bursts, leading to economic decline. Or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that stabilizes population, eradicates poverty, and stabilizes climate. Historians will record the choice, but it is ours to make.”
“I don't paint to live, I live to paint.”
“Donâ€™t coach for the name on your business card”
“Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the ideology behind gold fever mobilized settlers to cross the Atlantic to an unknown fate. Subjugating entire societies and civilizations, enslaving whole countries, and slaughtering people village by village did not seem too high a price to pay, nor did it appear inhumane. The systems of colonization were modern and rational, but its ideological basis was madness.”
“A house without a cat is like a day without sunshine, a pie without fromage, a dinner without wine.”
“Something will master and something will serve. Either you run the day or the day runs you; either you run the business or the business runs you.”

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