"I think, in the longer view of things, there is a very powerful pull in the direction of participatory government."

-- Paul Wolfowitz

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“That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.”
“Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.”
“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“(About parenting:) ... all that tedium, broken up by little spurts of high drama.”
“My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big. They are taking 5 to 10 percent risks on a trade when they should be taking 1 to 2 percent risks. The emotional burden of trading is substantial; on any given day, I could lose millions of dollars. If you personalize these losses, you canâ€™t trade.”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the truth.”
“That's the beauty of the Web: You can roll around in a stranger's obsession without having to smell his or her house. You can amscray whenever you want without being rude. The site gets its "hit" and you know more about our species' diversity.”
“The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.”

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