"You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot."

-- Tom Waits

“Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“One thing that makes it possible to be an optimist is if you have a contingency plan for when all hell breaks loose.”
“Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.”
“Society needs people who...know how to be compassionate and honest...Societ y needs all kinds of skills that are not just cognitive; they're emotional, they're affectional. You can't run the society on data and computers alone.”
“The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance”
“All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.”
“When you go to bed at night, you get seven or eight hours of sleep. I've had enough sleep. I've rested, and it's as simple as that. I want to do it now. I didn't want to three years ago. I was waiting until it felt right. I wanted to get back to falling in love with my guitar again, and hanging out with my guitar like I would a friend.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.
“Good things happen when you meet strangers.”

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