"If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits."

-- Peter R. Orszag

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“Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.”
“He bent his head and kissed her long and deeply, and in that kiss neither knew themselves, or even each other, but something beyond all consciousness that was both of them.”

Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1922). “Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard”
“Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.”
“If money was my only motivation, I would organize myself differently.”
“I think religion for many people is some sort of moral viagra.”

Source : "The Atheism Tapes". BBC Documentary, 2004.
“I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they'd take sympathy on me.”
“Did anyone ever have a boring dream?”

Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan
“When the Sun shrinks to a dull red dwarf, it will not be dying. It will just be starting to live and everything that has gone before will merely be a prelude to its real history.”

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