"What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch."

-- Bob Goff

#Swings Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.”
“The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.”
“By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.”
“If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.”
“I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've never really sung professionally at all.”
“I don't believe in making a record and rushing it.”
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
“So the Bush-Obama administration has taken a fiscal stance diametrically opposed to that of the patron saint of free enterprise. While escalating war in Afghanistan and maintaining over 850 military bases around the world, the administration has run up the national debt that Smith decried. By shifting the tax burden off property and off rent-seeking monopolies - above all, off the financial sector - this policy has raised America's cost of living and doing business, thereby undercutting its competitive power and running up larger and larger foreign debt.”

Source : "Adam Smith Critiques the Deficit Reduction Commission". Personal website, michael-hudson.com. December 06, 2010.

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