"I am always an optimist. The pessimists are the liars who refuse to admit what is happening. And I'll give you three things we could do this instant to help Mexico: legalize drugs, renegotiate NAFTA so that it pays a living wage, protects unions and protects the environment and stop Plan Merida which gives $500 million a year to the Mexican army, the largest single criminal organization in Mexico."

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Charles Bowden

#Liars Quotes #Army Quotes #Years Quotes

“Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.”
“I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.”
“In every free and deliberating society, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite parties, and violent dissensions and discords; and one of these, for the most part, must prevail over the other for a longer or shorter time.”
“I want to spend my time exploring the characters we've already got here. I want to give them more time to shine before the team gets to have 400 members.”
“Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites.”
“What we say is important for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
“I caught my second wife screwing my stepdad. OK? It's a cruel world, Walt. Grow up.”
“Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.”

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