"It is as to whether its services or uses are to be exchanged or not which makes a tool an article of capital or merely an article of wealth. Thus, the lathe of a manufacturer used in making things which are to be exchanged is capital, while the lathe kept by a gentleman for his own amusement is not."

-- Henry George

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“You're a black belt in the 1st round but sometimes you're a purple belt in the 5th.”
“I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.”
“Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.”
“After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.”

Source : "It’s 3 a.m. and Hillary’s Dreaming" by Marc Cooper, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
“Be present - and see what a difference it makes in your lives and in the world.”
“How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.”

Source : Malcolm Lowry (2012). “Under the Volcano: A Novel”, p.105, Open Road Media
“Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.”
“There are very few designers in Hollywood today who know how to really flatter a woman's body, and Mark Zunino is at the top of my list.”

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