"Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, for the people and by the people, but a government for Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the masterâ€¦Let the bloodhounds of money who have dogged us thus far beware."

-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

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“Apart from the underlying mystery of all things, there is also another possible specific mystery in this situation: Why did I become so interested in Buddhism, Zen and so on? I seem to have a Buddhist voice in my head, and someone asked me about this recently, saying he was intrigued.”
“Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2010). “Further Along The Road Less Travelled”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“I believe that the shocking toll of AIDS on gay men in the West was partly due to their Seventies delusions that a world without women was possible. All-male energies, unbalanced and ravenous, literally tore the body apart.”
“I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.”
“The uncommitted life isn't worth living.”

Source : Marshall William Fishwick (1963). “Faust Revisited: Some Thoughts on Satan”
“**New business concepts are always, always the product of lucky foresight.** That's right - the essential insight doesn't come out of any dirigiste planning process; it comes form some cocktail of happenstance, desire, curiosity, ambition and need. But at the end of the day, there has to be a degree of foresight -- a sense of where new riches lie. So radical innovation is always one part fortuity and one part clearheaded vision. [first-line bold by author] [2002] p.23”
“If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.”
“Its fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.”

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