"We've got a form of brainwashing going on in our countryâ€¦. Do you know how they brainwash people? They repeat something over and over. And that's what we do in this country. Owning things is good. More money is good. More property is good. More commercialism is good. MORE IS GOOD. MORE IS GOOD. We repeat it--and have it repeated to us--over and over until nobody bothers to even think otherwise. The average person is so fogged up by all this, he has no perspective on what's really important anymore."

-- Morrie Schwartz

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“I'll try to record the spiritual quality of the things that strike me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“We had a big controversy in the United States when there was a limited number of dialysis machines. In Seattle, they appointed what they called a 'God committee' to choose who should get it, and that committee was eventually abandoned. Society ended up paying the whole bill for dialysis instead of having people make those decisions.”

Source : "Ezra Klein Interviews Ezekiel Emanuel on 'Death Panels' and D.C. Food". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.
“It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.”
“I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.”
“Chance and necessity.”
“I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.”
“I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.”
“I love America, but I don't like it.”

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