"To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake"

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.”
“I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.”
“If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their Christian labels, then it might make sense to attack presidents and business owners who commit the "happy holiday" sin. But if the goal is to restore the religious meaning of the Christian holy day, then they are aiming at the wrong Target.”
“It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.”
“My relationship with Barack Obama isn't based on my political philosophy or his.”

Source : "Sen. Tom Coburn: A proud contrarian". "60 minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. December 21, 2014.
“I'll seek a four leaved shamrock in all thy fairy dells, And if I find the charmed leaves, oh, how I'll weave my spells!”

Source : Samuel Lover, “The Four-Leaved Shamrock”
“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.”

Source : "Culture and Anarchy" by Matthew Arnold, (Ch. I), 1869.
“The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes; the privatization or elimination of human services; the elimination of public education for low-income people; the easing of restrictions against child labor; the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries; the breaking of labor unions; and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations.”

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