"Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?"

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Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

Andy Couturier

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“I went back into the older stories and reworked them, because I became a better writer over the years and could spot flaws. I loved having another chance to make them stronger, and to bring them closer to me, made them less like a greatest hits compilation, and more like something written in the same extended burst.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Suggestion is generally better than Definition. There is a seeming dogmatism about Definition that is often repellent, while Suggestion, on the contrary, disarms suspicion and summons to co-operation and experiment. Definition provokes discussion. Suggestion provokes to love and good works. Defining is limiting. Suggestion is enlarging. Defining calls a halt; Suggestion calls for an advance. Defining involves the peril of contentment: "I am here, I rest." "Thus far," says Definition, and draws a map. "Westward," cries Suggestion, and builds a boat.”
“You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.”
“There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.”
“There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'”
“Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.”
“Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.”

Source : «Hardball with Chris Matthews», www.nbcnews.com. October 17.
“The truth--a hideous spectacle!”

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