"Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously."

-- Barbara Deming

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“And that one is gone. A home run for Mickey Mantle! How do you like that?”
“The Holy Father held a special place in the hearts of more than 1 billion Catholics worldwide.”
“Story is where people go to practice the key skills of human social life.”

Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What makes you so certain?" "But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?" "Yes!" "Then you want death.”
“The last place we tend to look for healing is within ourselves.”
“Even philosophies who have denounced pseudosciences like psychoanalysis, have condoned pseudoscientific economic theories like neoclassical microeconomics. It is far safer and easier to criticize Freud and Jung than to criticize Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek, because the latter are backed by political movements whereas the former are not.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”
“You can taste a word.”

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