"Purity is a good mask for corruption because it discourages inquiry."

-- Steven Levitt

#Inquiry Quotes #Corruption Quotes #Purity Quotes

“It's just to let the other one know it can be replaced.”
“You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.”

Source : "Jimmy Kimmel Live" at ABC, August 04, 2010.
“On Dec. 10, 2000, I learned I was free of cancer.”
“A competitor continually sets new goals. He feels the need to keep raising the bar. If the fist goal is to make the team, and he achieves it, he immediately resets the goal to: I want to be a starter.”
“America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
“In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.”

Source : "Eisner/Miller". Book by Frank Miller and Will Eisner, 2005.
“Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.”
“As currently written, the laws require certain manufacturers and users of such chemicals to report any and all environmental releases-either accidental or routine-to air, water, or soil. The Toxics Release Inventory is the main registry of such events, and it is available to the public through the Environmental Protection Agency. It is hardly comprehensive. Toxic emissions reported to the federal government are thought to account for only 5 percent of all chemical releases.”

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