"The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again."

-- Ed Koch

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“Be of comfort, and your heavy sorrow Part equally among us; storms divided, Abate their force, and with less rage are guided.”
“Truth is truth, though from an enemy, and spoken in malice.”

Source : John Bell, Joseph Addison, Michael Arne, John Banks, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Fatal curiosity”, p.73
“It suddenly occurred to me that every move on the chessboard is old and has been played by somebody at some time. Maybe our own history has been played out by somebody at some time, and we just move our pieces about in the same moves to strike in the same way as people have always done.”
“Buddhism is a path of supreme optimism, for one of its basic tenets is that no human life or experience is to be wasted or forgotten, but all should be transformed into a source of wisdom and compassionate living.”

Source : Taitetsu Unno (2002). “Shin Buddhism: Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold”, p.17, Harmony
“Manâ€™s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. â€¦ Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells”
“Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!”
“It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.”
“They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!”

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