"You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine."

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Source : FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Aug 10, 2010

Rick Bragg

#Hate Quotes #Wish Quotes #Machines Quotes

“Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.”
“Crime is based upon need, making money. Â People sell drugs to make money. Â But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to. Â There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor. Â There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off. Â If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.”
“I believe that there is one only living and true God, existing in three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. . . . that the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments are a revelation from God. . . . that God did send His own Son to become man, die in the room and stead of sinners, and thus to lay a foundation for the offer of pardon and salvation to all mankind so as all may be saved who are willing to accept the Gospel offer.”
“Each individual is unique. We all have equal worth. Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.”
“People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.”
“I think we need to find a way to provide people with a reason that the average man on the street can grasp and embrace, that would cause him to move away from the centuries-old idea of the individual and individualism, and move toward a different concept of what it means to be human in a collective society. Unless he has that reason, unless he has a fundamental reason to do that, it's going to be very difficult to cause him to make that shift, in my view.”
“Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.”
“Happiness is a long walk with a putter.”

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