"We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth."

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Source : "Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends". Book by William Pfaff, ch. 2, The Challenge of Europe, p. 27, 1989.

William Pfaff

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“If a law commands me to sin I will break it; if it calls me to suffer, I will let it take its course unresistingly.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.97, Penguin
“Happiness has not to all the same name: to Youth she is known as the Future; Age knows her as the Dream.”
“In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.”
“I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.”
“Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?”
“I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.”
“My joy is in your freedom, not your compliance. I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary for you to serve me. Deity has no needs. "All that is" is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants or lacks nothing, by definition.”
“The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.”

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