"Economics is like a church, and it fulfills the same function the church had fulfilled for centuries: the justification of the status quo."

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“What ultimately matters is the emotions and feelings that you experienced and people around [whom] you experienced [them].”
“Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.”
“Women are a beautiful complication, and I look forward to far more beauties and far more complications.”
“Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings”
“I have a really, really, really normal family. And by normal I mean we're all nuts on some level. I think you've gotta be a little nuts to pursue any kind of creative job. I was also a really good kid. I know that sounds really dull, but I didn't rebel in the traditional sense.”

Source : "Anna Paquin's All-Day Energy Secrets". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.foxnews.com. June 03, 2012.
“Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.”
“Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.”
“The limits of thought are not so much set from outside, by the fullness or poverty of experiences that meet the mind, as from within, by the power of conception, the wealth of formulative notions with which the mind meets experiences.”

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