"Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you also hurry, half-dressed and barefoot, into the garden, and softly, and exclaiming of their dearness, fill your arms with the white and pink flowers, with their honeyed heaviness, their lush trembling, their eagerness to be wild and perfect for a moment, before they are nothing, forever?"

-- Mary Oliver

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“Only three or four outs directly affect the outcome of any given game...One of the greatest challenges of pitching is to recognize these critical situations and rise to the occasion with consistency and a competitive spirit.”
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust.”
“Really, Mr. Lincoln, I have had enough of this show business.”
“Being good is good business”
“Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.”

Source : Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. (2013). “Fascism versus Capitalism”, p.79, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.”

Source : "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, in.news.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.
“We were to be forever at war with somebody. We were going to fight communism everywhere on earth even if it didn't threaten us. It was a holy war, just as we've made one on terrorism and Islam, equally stupid and equally irrelevant.”
“I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.”

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