"I believe that all taxes are bad."

-- Stephen Harper

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“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
“Stated in the simplest terms, the recognized solution to the problem of foodborne illness is a comprehensive prevention strategy that involves all participants in the food system, domestic and foreign, doing their part to minimize the likelihood of harmful contamination. And that is the strategy mandated by FSMA. It is not a strategy that assumes we can achieve a zero-risk food supply, but it is a strategy grounded in the conviction that we can better protect consumers and the economic vigor of the food system if everyone involved implements reasonably available measures to reduce risk.”
“I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.”
“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats.Â Of course you have to start out playing like someone else.Â You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you.Â But then you start playing for yourself.Â Show them that you're an individual.Â And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”
“Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.Â Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.”
“I admit that thoughts influence the body.”
“Heâ€™d pleasured Hera and a few thousand others, and when Hera learned about those thousand othersâ€¦heads had rolled.”
“As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale.”

Source : Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.127, St. Martin's Griffin

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