"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."

-- Omar Khayyam

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“Since when do we let the government decide what is or isnt good for us? What the hell does Congress know about nutrition, anyway?....If the government can use force whenever something is "in our best interest" then government should force everyone to wake up at 6am every morning for calisthenics in the front yard. Fast food establishments should be torn down and replaced with bars that serve carrot juice and alfalfa sprouts, since - "its in your best interest." This paternalistic attitude that "the government knows best" and that you are merely a helpless child is insulting and reprehensible.”

Source : "Good to Be King". Book by Michael Badnarik, 2004.
“In our town there is a secret spot where you can still see the stars at night, believe it or not. It is the only spot like that left, unclouded by the dwindling skyscrapers rising nearby. It is a good place to go to walk and talk in whispers. Following the little hill that rises from the park to a small clearing which overlooks the statue of the armless general on his bronze steed, most of us later remember this spot as the first place we knew we might be in love.”

Source : Joe Meno (2006). “The Boy Detective Fails”, p.221, Akashic Books
“Many Christians are either woefully deficient in their knowledge of Scripture or noticeably devoid of any experience of God's power. The Lord never intended this for His people. We have all seen firsthand the joyless intellectual arrogance the absence of spiritual power can produce, as well as the fanatical emotional excess that comes from the lack of theological integrity.”
“I am an actor through and through.”
“The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.”
“Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.”
“People have been trying to do kind of natural language processing with computers for decades and there has only been sort of slow progress in that in general. It turned out the problem we had to solve is sort of the reverse of the problem people usually have to solve. People usually have to solve the problem of you're given you know thousands, millions of pages of text, go have the computer understand this.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?”

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