"Freedom is like health, it is taken for granted while one has it. One becomes aware of it when it has gone."

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Source : Henry Christopher Wallich (1960). “The Cost of Freedom: Conservatism and Modern Capitalism”

Henry Wallich

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“We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.”
“I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.”
“Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.”

Source : "Christine O’Donnell Thinks Psychics Are Evil Pimps" by Steve Krakauer, www.mediaite.com. September 15, 2010.
“The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.”
“If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.”
“What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity ...”

Source : Diane Keaton (2011). “Then Again”, p.188, Random House
“When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.”
“We have persistent objects, they're called files.”

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