"When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties."

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Source : "No Future for You" by Thomas Frank, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2008.

Thomas Frank

#Running Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Looks Quotes

“After a few years of the addiction controlling my online life, and beginning to affect my life offline as well - meeting men and becoming physically involved with them - whether I believed in God or not, to me was moot. Anything that had as much control over my life as this addiction did could not be healthy.”

Source : "Secrets, Lies, & Porn in the Church: A Q&A with “Permission to Speak Freely” Author Anne Jackson". Interview with Flunking Sainthood, www.beliefnet.com. September 2010.
“From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.”

Source : "The Garden of Proserpine" l. 81 (1866)
“The future is all around here.' It's a place, anyplace where we don't exist.”
“There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.”
“I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.”
“If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it ...”

Source : "If - " st. 2 (1910)
“People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.”
“I will not Drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week.”

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