"There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about."

-- Sinead O'Connor

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“Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
“In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.”
“The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and the speech which communicates it.' People became hypocritical, cunning, mistrustful, cynical, silent, cruel, and indifferent to the fate of others as a result of the destruction of their own souls.”
“On my visits to America, I discovered that the old Marxist dictum, "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," was probably more in force in America-that holy of holies of capitalism-than in any other country in the world.”

Source : Critique of the Gotha Program pt. 1 (1875).
“Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.”
“I gazed upon the glorious sky And the green mountains round, And thought that when I came to lie At rest within the ground, 'Twere pleasant, that in flowery June When brooks send up a cheerful tune, And groves a joyous sound, The sexton's hand, my grave to make, The rich, green mountain-turf should break.”
“The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died”
“What lawsuits grow out of the graves of rich men, every day; sowing perjury, hatred, and lies among near kindred, where there should be nothing but love!”

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