"Why does a public discussion of economic policy so often show the abysmal ignorance of the participants?"

-- Robert Solow

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“Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.”

Source : Mumia Abu-Jamal (1995). “Live from Death Row”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company
“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
“I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.”
“One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right amount of fear and suspicion will earn one safety. Fear is promoted by the government as a kind of policy. Fear is accepted, even among the best-educated people in this country, even among the professors with whom I work, as a kind of intelligence. And inspiring fear in others is often seen as neighborly and kindly, instead of being regarded as what my cousin recognized it for - a violence.”

Source : "No-man’s-land". www.believermag.com. February, 2008.
“His own government, suing him, that's not Chocolate Sundae!”
“Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.”
“Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.”
“Mastery is revealed in limitation.”

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