"Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud."

-- Alan Greenspan

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“Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.”
“So we contemplate each other, and we want each other, and I give it life and warmth, and it gives me my reason for living.”
“But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and sung their song. If it were humanity that needed changing, then we'd be out of luck. But it isn't humanity that needs changing, it's just...us.”
“How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.”
“I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with no income and really no skills to parent?”

Source : "Ellen Barkin Hopes 'New Normal' Helps 'Redefine What Normal Is'" by Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 29, 2012.
“Whatâ€™s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their faces; and we gasp with pleasure. Our mouths are dry as the lost beaches, and our eyes turn aimlessly and without hope. Now all that remain are these cafÃ©s where we meet to drink these cool drinks, these diluted spirits, and the tables are stickier than the pavements where our shadows of the day before have fallen.”
“I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.”

Source : "Grandma Moses : My Life's History". Book by Grandma Moses, 1951.
“Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.”

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