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Few things in this world are more predictable than the reaction of conventional minds to unconventional ideas.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
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The Bahamas is a small population. But it plays a lot bigger than the population suggests. You feel close to everything. Everything that happens in the wider world happens here. Like migration issues. Or refugee issues. Or homophobia.
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So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.
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The place was a familiar as breath but as far from his life now as the moon.
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The solutions the non-profits are trying to provide aren't keeping pace with the problems they're trying to survive.
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It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour.
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There is strength in numbers and those numbers come in pounds.
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Forty million Americans smoked marijuana; the only ones who didn’t like it were Judge Ginsberg, Clarence Thomas and Bill Clinton.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
