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Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known—not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me
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“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.”
― Healology
― Healology
“One reason we rush so quickly to the vulgar satisfactions of judgment, and love to revel in our righteous outrage, is that it spares us from the impotent pain of empathy, and the harder, messier work of understanding.”
― We Learn Nothing
― We Learn Nothing
“Our earth is degenerate in these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book, and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”—From an ancient Assyrian tablet.”
― A History of Interest Rates
― A History of Interest Rates
“If you feel irritated or threatened by others' beliefs,
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.”
― Master of Stupidity
it's a sign that you're experiencing crisis of confidence.”
― Master of Stupidity
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.”
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