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Earth knows no desolation.
She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.
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"Actual happiness looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamor of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. ( Read more... ) -
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"I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake with a blow on the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, we’d be just as happy if we had no books at all. . . . What we need are books that hit us like a most painful ( Read more... ) -
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"For years now, they’ve told us that we can’t afford-that the government providing healthcare to all people is just unimaginable; it can’t be done. We don’t have the money to rebuild our infrastructure. We don’t have the money to wipe out poverty. We can’t do it. But all of a sudden, yeah, we do have $700 billion for a bailout of Wall Street ( Read more... ) -
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F is for Fire that burns down the whole town.
U is for URANIUM...BOMBS!
N is for No survivors when you-
Plankton! Those things aren't what fun is all about!
