"Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow."

-- Victor Hugo

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“A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.”
“Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white-separate and unequal.”

Source : Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders introduction (1968)
“When I played, Old-Timers Day was my favorite day of the whole season, because I got to share a locker with one of the great Yankees... It was an out-of-body experience.”
“I read poetry to save time.”
“As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.”

Source : Heidi Baker, Shara Pradhan (2008). “Compelled by Love”, p.91, Charisma Media
“I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.”
“The theory of medicine, therefore, presents what is useful in thought, but does not indicate how it is to be applied in practice-the mode of operation of these principles. The theory, when mastered, gives us a certain kind of knowledge. Thus we say, for example, there are three forms of fevers and nine constitutions. The practice of medicine is not the work which the physician carries out, but is that branch of medical knowledge which, when acquired, enables one to form an opinion upon which to base the proper plan of treatment.”

Source : Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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