"When the students are occupied, they're not juvenile delinquents. I believe that education is a capital investment."

-- Arlen Specter

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“There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally.”
“When I race my mind is full of doubts - who will finish second, who will finish third?”
“Acceptance is the road to all change.”
“I haven't written enough songs to be able to say that I have a system. I've only written a handful.”

Source : Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.
“The Boomers have modeled a set of bad habits, and one grand gesture is not going to unwind all those bad habits.”
“Recent studies of mindfulness practices reveal that they can result in profound improvements in a range of physiological, mental, and interpersonal domains in our lives. Cardiac, endocrine, and immune functions are improved with mindfulness practices. Empathy, compassion, and interpersonal sensivity seem to be improved. People who come to develop the capacity to pay attention in the present moment without grasping on to their inevitable judgments also develop a deeper sense of well-being and what can be considered a form of mental coherence.”
“OK, so $1 trillion is what it costs to run the federal government for one year. So this money's going to run through September of 2016. Half of the trillion dollars goes to defense spending and the Pentagon. The other half goes to domestic spending - everything from prisons to parks. So there's also about 74 billion in there that goes to the military operations that we have ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and Syria.”

Source : "Here's What You Should Know About The $1.8 Trillion Spending Bill". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 21, 2015.
“I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.”

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