"To try to be better is to be better."

-- Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“Wherever St. Paul went, there was a riot. Wherever I go, they serve tea.”
“Apple has never allowed ad-blocking software on the iPhone or iPad. This is one among many reasons that I ditched both. Not because I hate ads all that passionately, but because it's an example of the obsessive corporate control Apple maintains over its environment.”
“Every man must have freedom, must have the scope to form, test, and act upon his own choices, for any sort of development of his own personality to take place. He must, in short, be free in order that he may be fully human.”

Source : Murray N. Rothbard (2011). “Economic Controversies”, p.601, Ludwig von Mises Institute
“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I'll never know.”
“No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.”
“Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they've never seen your face, they're not sure where you live and have no map to the place.”

Source : "Song: 'Dear God' ('A Picnic of Poems in Allah's Green Garden')". 2011.
“Here we are at the edge of the world, the very edge of Western civilization, and all of us are so desperate to feel something, anything, that we keep falling into each other and f*****g our way toward the end of days.”
“There are hundreds of ways to make money using the Internet.”

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