"Second freshness - that's what is nonsense! There is only one freshness - the first - and it is also the last. And if sturgeon is of the second freshness, that means it is simply rotten."

-- Mikhail Bulgakov

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“I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. "Perfection" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, "I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do." Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection.”
“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
“People who volunteer at the recycling center or soup kitchen through a church or neighborhood group can come to feel part of something 'larger.' Such a sense of belonging calls on a different part of a self than the market calls on. The market calls on our sense of self-interest. It focuses us on what we 'get.”

Source : "Pay Someone to Name Your Child? How We Are Outsourcing Our Personal Affairs". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.alternet.org. August 13, 2012.
“The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.”
“That was the worst thing about having a relationship with someone, even a pretend relationship. You opened up, let someone in, and when it was over, they had all the ammunition they needed to completely destroy you.”
“The problem with being a gun rights supporter is that the left hates guns and the right hates rights.”
“Every morning I wake up and thank God.”
“Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.”

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