"Donating money to a few of my favorite free-market organizations used to be a pleasant duty, but now I'm literally inundated with demands from hundreds of think tanks and public-policy groups, all vying for my limited funds"

-- Mark Skousen

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“I got into Julliard on almost a full scholarship.”
“The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.”

Source : "Secretary Moniz Emphasizes 'Innovation Agenda' To Stop Climate Change". "All Things Considered", wamc.org. December 7, 2015.
“Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.”
“Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.”

Source : Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications
“Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.”

Source : Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan
“Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.”
“If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?”
“Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man”

Source : "The Arte of English Poesie". Book by George Puttenham and Richard Puttenham, 1589.

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