"The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption, children lured into organized crime and random violence that took the lives of countless innocent people."

-- Kurt Schmoke

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“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”
“Congress should be forward thinking in the policies we set, instead of waiting until catastrophe looms.”
“I love the game of baseball.”
“I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots at JFK. I took that tour and met some conspiracy buffs, all of us standing at the gunmanâ€™s window and looking down to the spot where the motorcade passed. Itâ€™s right there below the window, an easy shot at a slow-moving car. No mystery, just a kid and a rifle and a tragedy. They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.”

Source : David Wong (2009). “John Dies at the End”, p.422, Macmillan
“O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.”
“When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.”

Source : BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”
“The miracle of compounding returnsÂ is overwhelmed by the tyranny of compounding costs.”

Source : "The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns". Book by John C. Bogle, 2007.
“When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head.”

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