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That’s the paradox,” he said. “You would think that you elect this guy and you want him to effect change, and then he gets elected, and people don’t care about bills being passed. This Math Whiz Called It for Obama Months Ago – NYTimes.com

We all know the one about the Emperor walking around with nothing on, while everyone admires the finery of his garments – garments so fine that only really clever and smart people like investment bankers can see them. The rest of us thought that debt, was, well, debt, but the bankers said no, debt is …

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Yes, we need to stabilise our present situation, and then, perhaps, we could ask a really simple question – far too simple for the clever people – what is money for? At least that way it stops being an end in itself. Jeanette Winterson

Then, the best thing of all – coming home in the dead of night to this beautiful place where there are no lights and no noise, and where the dog, the cats, the owls, the foxes, the badgers and the stars are more or less where I left them. Jeanette Winterson

When we have the good fortune to have a noble friend with whom we can have noble conversation then it is also our way of repaying that gift by being a noble friend to others. Noble friends are like a chain reaction. We don’t only need to search for one. We can also be one. …

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The polluting of the ballot box, and a destruction of vote is not the mutilation of a piece of paper. It is the destruction of the individual’s opinion…. Hold this Thought: Seymour Stedman before the NY State Assembly: Bob Loeffler

The joke in law school was: “The curse of Yale Law School is to try to die with your options open.” Which means – at some point, you have to pursue one option, which means foreclosing other options, and to try to avoid that is crazy. The Happiness Project: Paradoxes of Happinesss: the sadness of …

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