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“Life is funny that way. Sometimes the dumbest thing you do turns out to be the smartest.”
― Brainwalker
― Brainwalker
“The pleasure isn't in doing the thing, the pleasure is in planning it.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some keep crying that the country is going to the dogs, remember it’s always been going to the dogs in the eyes of some, and that 90 percent, or more, of the people are good people, generous-hearted, law-abiding, good citizens who get to work on time, do a good job, love their country, pay their taxes, care about their neighbors, care about their children’s education, and believe, rightly, as you do, in the ideals upon which our way of life is founded.”
― The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
― The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
“But in both instances, the dissemination of the information diluted its power. As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis once wrote, "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
― Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
“We know you stood guard duty at the White House, Reuben. We have film of you urinating behind the bushes.”
― Worm Holes
― Worm Holes
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