"But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

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“Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.”
“It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.”
“Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.”
“There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.”

Source : "Doonesbury on Job Creation" by Andrew Tobias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2012.
“Emmerich knows how to do "big", but the trick is in making it (movies) both big and fun.”
“Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'”
“Follow your own path, no matter what people say.”
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

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