"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."

-- Milton Friedman

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“I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.”

Source : "(K)new Words: Redefine Your Communication" by Gloria Pierre, (p. 147), 2005.
“Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.”

Source : Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company
“In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.”

Source : "New Again: Matt Dillon". Interview with Andy Warhol, Maura Moynihan and Genevieve Glass, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2013.
“'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.”
“Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.”

Source : Warren G. Bennis, Burt Nanus (2003). “Leaders: the strategies for taking charge”
“Pop music often deals with subject matter like breakups, or you have songs that are like, "I will love you forever," or "you're so hot right now," or "I really feel you," or "We should be together." There aren't that many songs that are like, "I just walked into the room and now I have nothing to say because I feel so awkward because I fancy you so much." There's not as many songs that deal with that awkward bit about love; about how you can really have such a huge crush on someone that actually is completely disabling.”
“We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call 'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.”

Source : "In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
“The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."”

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