"Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! â€“ but there is no peace."

-- Patrick Henry

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“Our goal is to make finance the servant, not the master, of the real economy.”

Source : "After Lehman Brothers' fall, we must look beyond the banks" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.
“We almost made it to thirty seconds without an insult. I think we set a new record.”
“It was hard to leave my school. I've been going to the same school since kindergarden.”
“When you get something like MTV, it's like regular television. You get it, and at first it's novel and brand new and then you watch every channel, every show. And then you become a little more selective and more selective, until ultimately... you wind up with a radio.”
“Merchandisers, by embedding subliminal trigger devices in media, are able to evoke a strong emotional relationship between, say, a product perceived in an advertisement weeks before and the strongest of all emotional stimuli - love (sex) and death.”
“No. Absolutely not.â€ â€œSimon,â€ she said. â€œItâ€™s a perfectly fine plan.â€ â€œThe plan where you follow Jace and Sebastian off to some unknown dimensional pocket and we use these rings to communicate so those of us over here in the regular dimension of Earth can track you down? That plan?â€ â€œYes.â€ â€œNo,â€ he said. â€œNo, it isnâ€™t.â€ Clary sat back. â€œYou donâ€™t just get to say no.â€ â€œThis plan involves me! I get to say no! No.â€ â€œSimonâ€”â€ Simon patted the seat beside him as if someone were sitting there. â€œLet me introduce you to my good friend No.”
“I always return to Paris, taking my selves along - past self, customary self, the self I never had.”

Source : Helen Bevington (1988). “The Journey Is Everything: A Journal of the Seventies”, p.91, Duke University Press
“Once, at a seminar, I heard a Westernized lama say that a meditator's state of mind should be like that of a hotel doorman. A doorman lets the guests in, but he doesn't follow them up to their rooms. He lets them out, but he doesn't walk into the street with them to their next appointment. He greets them all, then lets them go on about their business. Meditation is, in its initial stages, simply accustoming oneself to letting thoughts come and go without grasping at their sleeves or putting up a velvet rope to keep them out.”

Source : Marc Ian Barasch (2010). “The Compassionate Life: Walking the Path of Kindness”, p.131, ReadHowYouWant.com

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